The Canadian government on Wednesday announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of transition.

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 ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

Rebuilding Syria will take years and billions of dollars. The first step is stabilizing the economy and improving the living ...

The Umayyad Mosque was a masterpiece of early Islamic architecture, built in the eighth century when Damascus was the capital of the first Muslim empire. But although Damascus was a Muslim city, its ...

Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy ...