Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad.

Watch as we forge a beautiful feather-shaped knife from Damascus steel! This video takes you through every step - from raw ...

A Reuters investigation found 40 distinct sites of killings, looting and arson during three days of sectarian massacres ...

AL-SHALCHI: "People are saying that, for 10 years, they didn't dare leave their homes," Bakdash says. The workers make the ice cream by smashing ingredients in a deep, metal cylinder using large rods.

DAMASCUS — An Israeli airstrike targeted an apartment building in a residential neighborhood in the Syrian capital on Thursday, aiming at what Israel said was a Palestinian militant "command ...

A black, metal sign that says “The Watermelon Crawl Beer Trailer” hangs from its rustic roof. If the name sounds familiar to you, yes, it was named after the 1990’s country hit by Tracy Byrd.

Dunno about you, but “placoid” isn’t a term I tend to use in daily conversation — or even one I had read or heard before today. While the various metals combined in the forming of Damascus steel are ...

Works on display at his atelier in the Old City include a life size horse sculpted from metal and an imposing bust carved from wood. Ali explained how Islamic art generally tends towards abstract ...

It took only two minutes in the $107,800 Woodward Stakes at New York's Aqueduct race track to convince the few remaining doubters that Mrs. Edith Bancroft's Damascus is 1967's top ...

Shia pilgrims from Syria and abroad used to flock to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine outside of Damascus every year to commemorate Ashoura, a solemn day marking the 7th-century martyrdom of the Prophet ...