The Al-Watan newspaper said the crush happened during the distribution of free meals by a social media personality ...

With the future of the city in the balance, a cultural historian looks past the corruption, violence and trauma of recent ...

There people were killed in a crush at Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital Damascus on Friday, the governor of the city said. "An unfortunate incident occurred today in the Great Umayyad Mosque as a ...

Damascus started as a dairy farm town with segregated one and two room schoolhouses where many people earned their living as blacksmiths, carriage makers, peddlers, ice harvesters, milk deliverers ...

Bel Trew joins those searching Damascus and other sites across the country for journalist Austin Tice and other American citizens who went missing under the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... killed hundreds of people near the country’s capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to ...

Syrian Emergency Task Force On Thursday, hundreds gathered in Damascus for Al-Hamada's funeral ... most important moment in recent Middle East history: Reporter's notebook Once abroad, the ...

Some 157,000 people are missing, according to Syrian Network for Human Rights. DAMASCUS, Syria -- Editor's Note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. Family members and friends of ...

After the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Afaf Mohammed did what she could not for more than a decade: she climbed Mount Qasyun to admire a sleeping Damascus "from the sky" and watch the sun rise.

JAKARTA: As news lingered on a nerve-wracking Saturday evening that rebel forces were preparing to enter the Syrian capital Damascus, residents shuttered their doors and windows. Among them were ...