The last time I drove this road was in 2011 ... It was Day Two since Damascus was “liberated”. Those who were inside the prison, believed to be a few hundred, were set free.
FRANCE 24 reporters James André, Julie Dungelhoeff and Sofia Amara crossed into Syria from Lebanon and drove to Damascus just after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This is what they saw ...
The Road to Damascus isn’t what it used to be. We are fudging slightly. The journey that made the Road to Damascus a universally understood allegory for conversion is impossible to retrace today. When ...
But that tricky ethno-religious equations can still play spoilers Columnist based in Latakia Hundreds of people have slept outside in freezing weather in Damascus region, hoping to find a loved ...
There was a snarl of cars when we arrived. We could hear chanting. Someone was waving a rebel flag. Overnight news that Damascus had fallen and Syria's president had fled spurred Syrians in Lebanon to ...
The new ruling entity in Damascus is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former branch of al-Qaida and the foremost force in the rebel coalition. HTS previously competently governed Idlib, a city in ...
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime marks a watershed moment for the Middle East, with implications extending far beyond the borders of war-torn Syria. December 8, 2024, will be remembered ...
The road to Damascus tells the story of a new Syria emerging from 54 years of authoritarian rule by one family, the Assads. Today's Syria is no longer theirs.
Hope and uncertainty fill the streets of Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The challenges of rebuilding are enormous after years of civil war.
An Israeli air strike hit a car on the Damascus airport road on Tuesday, causing it to explode, Syria's official news agency SANA reported. "A car exploded after it was targeted in an Israeli ...