A recent fire that devastated a neighbourhood of the Ancient City of Damascus raised the alarm about the need to protect the old city, inscribed on the World Heritage list, from future catastrophes ...
In December, rebel leader Ahmed al-Shaara proclaimed a new and free Syria. The former jihadist recently sat down with 60 ...
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Sanctions are strangling Syria’s new economy

In places like Jobar, the task facing Syria’s new government stands in stark relief, written on the destroyed remnants of ...
For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying ...
(CNN) — Israel carried out a series of powerful strikes on the Syrian capital Damascus Wednesday, escalating a campaign it says is in support of an Arab minority group involved in deadly clashes with ...
By Carlotta Gall Reporting from Damascus, Syria The public was not ... a political activist in the coastal city of Tartus.