DAMASCUS, Syria -- Majed al-Sabah has big hopes for the street ... have increased tenfold in recent years. More than 70 old houses have been turned into restaurants and bars in the maze-like ...

In late February 2005, Darke found herself in the Old City exploring an Ottoman palace ... Damascus are a kind of calm before the storm. But after Syrians started protesting against Bashar al ...

Syrian-American Rabbi Youssef Hamra leads the first Jewish group prayer in Syria since the 1990s, in the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of ... old Jewish community was able to practise their ...