By Khalil Ashawi, Kinda Makieh, Yamam Al Shaar and Tom PerryDAMASCUS (Reuters) - On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of ...

Émigrés hope the battered country—sometimes a haven, sometimes a persecutor—can again be home under the new government.

Commissioned in 1753 by the Ottoman Governor of Damascus, As’ad Pasha al-Azem, this sprawling caravanserai was designed to be ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades on Feb. 19, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community and Syrian Jews abroad are trying to build bridges after Bashar al-Assad's ouster in the hope ...

In Damascus, amidst the tensions of an advancing Islamist rule, cultural celebrations persist. Mahmoud al-Haddad, a Syrian singer, recalls the joy of performing at a concert feared jeopardized by the ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the ...

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, right, and his son Henry lookout an old scripture at the Efranj synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb.

Syria’s tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus’s Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship.

On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of people packed into a courtyard in the Old City, dancing and singing during a joyful evening of music - a concert held with the approval of Syria's new ...