In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the ...

For Syrians observing Ramadan, this Muslim holy month is their first in their homeland since the end of the Assad family's ...

MOHAMMAD HILWAN, 20, from the Old City in Damascus, on marook, a sweet bread eaten during Ramadan in Syria. Once a simple loaf, it now comes in a multitude of iterations, some unrecognizable from the ...

At the start of the new year, 115,000 Syrians had already returned home from Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. In December, the ...

Flowers fell from a Syrian army helicopter on Saturday, strewn over Damascus alongside scraps of paper with messages of ...

Mohammed, 15, learned about the dangers of unexploded ordnance at a UNICEF child-friendly space — knowledge he used to save ...