Germany initiates a war crimes process for the famine in the Palestinian settlement in Damascus, which could set a precedent ...

Damascus is still trying to crack down on ISIS threats, and fund people who have returned from displaced persons camps. The ...

Yarmouk, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, was once the de facto capital of the Palestinian diaspora. It was devastated ...

Extensive Roman ruins remain from the Valley of the Tombs, the 1.2km colonnaded street with shops, water systems, Roman baths and markets in evidence, through to the imposing sanctuary of Bel.

3The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, one of Islam’s largest and oldest places of worship, one of six World Heritage sites in Syria, photographed by Christian Sahner before the Syrian conflict began.