At the Tunis airport, we learned that the rickety old ... Damascus’s Straight Street, where capitalism was arguably born in what is the oldest, active market (suq) in the world. Today, Syria ...

The conservative Muslim rebels who ousted Syria's dictator late last year had arrived to shut down the trendy cocktail bar Mahmoud runs in the Old City of Damascus. Two government agents placed an ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The residents of one Damascus suburb ... back — some after more than a decade away — now that the old regime is gone. Sponsor Message Mohammad Sahli, 25, an electrician ...

The spring rises inside the ruins of a Roman temple in the Barada Valley and flows toward Damascus ... Syria. “Now it looks like a desert. There is no one,” he said. “We hope that the good ...