A visit to the souk in the old city in the Syrian capital of Damascus tell us a lot about the state of the country's current economy.

Mr Al Shara went from a 21-year-old fighting US forces in Iraq, to founding the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front group fighting the Assad regime, to leader of the Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) rebel ...

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.In the ...