I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

You mentioned that Damascus itself looked worn out. I’m wondering if there’s anything else that stood out to you as you walked through the streets of the Old City of Damascus. There was this ...

American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump ...

The delegation visited half a dozen of them. The winding streets of Damascus' old Jewish quarter. (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) Rabbi Yusuf Hamra reconnects with a former neighbor from the Jewish ...

All of this is because of the impurities in the fuel," he said. Most of the vehicles on the streets of Damascus are old, as sanctions imposed on the toppled regime prevented the import of new ...

Damascus-SANA The Old Damascus Directorate ... and repairing walls and facades in Midhat Pasha Souq (market), cleaning streets and alleys, planting jasmine in neighborhoods and repairing damaged ...

In the winding, narrow streets of the capital's old Jewish quarter ... Rabbi Yusuf Hamra smells a citrus fruit with former neighbors in Old Damascus. "The scent of Damascus was orange blossoms ...