Adnan Alaoda feels at home in Damascus's Rawda cafe on al-Abed Street ... ("paradise") echoed through the loudspeakers. Impassive old gentlemen continued to play tawlé (trictrac), in the ...
Most of the shops in Damascus's old souk were open on Tuesday, some busy erasing traces of the rule of Bashar al-Assad who was ousted earlier this month, an AFP journalist said. "We have been ...