In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...
The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus was devastated by the Syrian civil war. The scene of violent clashes ...
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 ...
With the future of the city in the balance, a cultural historian looks past the corruption, violence and trauma of recent ...
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 ...
One of the mass graves is located just outside Damascus in Al Qutayfah ... believed to be one of the largest mass graves in modern history, and its true count could rival that of the Stalin ...
A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the Syrian uprising, performed in celebration of “Syria’s victory.” ...