it lies at the crossroads of the north-south highway that connects Aleppo and Damascus and the east-west highway that connects the desert and the Mediterranean Sea. Bassam Barabandi, a former ...

Rebel forces in Syria reached the suburbs of Damascus on Saturday, marking what the jihadist-backed groups called the “final phase” of their offensive against the government as protesters in ...

most of the Syrian civilians were trapped — unable to move forward or go back through roads controlled by the Syrian regime ...

International flights in and out of Syria’s main airport in Damascus will resume next week after being halted since rebels overthrew former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime last month.

A silent crowd gathered in the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday to press the new authorities about the fate of relatives who went missing under Bashar al-Assad and to demand justice for their ...

Damascus steel is a type of steel that is incredibly ... Rose Bowl Hidden biosphere discovered beneath world's driest hot desert Tribe becomes 1st in US history to pass unprecedented ...

NPR traveled to the camp, about a five-hour drive from Damascus — the first journalists ... Past the U.S. base, the road turns into a rough desert trail of tracks through the black rock.