A visit to the souk in the old city in the Syrian capital of Damascus tell us a lot about the state of the country's current economy.

"Our problem is not with Israel. We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's security," Damascus Governor ...

A Syrian family that survived a 2013 chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people near the country's capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to this day ...

On Tuesday, al-Shaara’s fledgling government announced a landmark agreement: anti-Assad rebel forces will disband, their ...

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Assad, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in Damascus on Sunday after meeting the country's new leaders.

The BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher says she has heard gunfire and explosions but it is "relatively calm" in Damascus, after rebels took control of the Syrian capital. President Assad is said to have ...

From a Mediterranean shipwreck to a mosaic on display in Washington DC, these are the discoveries that made scholars of the ...

With the stunning change of leadership in Syria and the end of a 50-year reign of the Assad regime, the significance of religious history in Syria shouldn't be overlooked. Most Syrians are now Muslim, ...

The fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has opened up a sea of uncertainty about Syria’s future — and about the treasures ...

As the collections of Sir Moses Montefiore and David Solomon Sassoon go under the hammer today, what's the future for rare ...