In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

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

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 ...

Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with hope following 13 years of civil war. Gunshots rang out from Mount ...

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 ...

The Christian community in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday celebrated Christmas by praying in churches. The Greek Melkite Catholic Church in Damascus's old city became crowded in the ...

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 ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The newly appointed governor of Damascus has called on the United States to use its influence to push for cordial relations with Israel. In a wide-ranging interview with NPR ...

Hussein Arbeeni, 41, explains how 23 people locked themselves inside a room and put tape around the door to prevent leakage of the sarin struck during a 2013 chemical weapons attack that was ...