Old Damascus, the oldest inhabited capital ... and are located on the eastern side of the old city, such as Bab Touma Market, Al-Qaymariyah Market, Al-Nawfara District, Al-Qabaqbiyah Market ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - An explosion struck the Christian Bab Touma district in the Old City of Damascus on Thursday in what Syrian state television said was a suicide bombing. Opposition sources said ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Nine Syrian civilians were killed on Monday by insurgent shelling of the old quarter of Damascus ... 21 were injured in the shelling of the Bab Touma and al-Shaghour districts of ...

The story has been done before: A Western journalist visits the Old City, checks in at a swinging ... and entered the Christian neighborhood of Bab Touma. It is hardly the only place to find ...

NewsAs the police undergo reorganization and redeployment, volunteers, some of whom are armed, take turns guarding the Christian sectors of the Syrian capital. They primarily deal with thieves ...

In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing ... My friend Firas and I set out from Bab Touma one Saturday morning ...

In stark contrast, Christians and Muslims alike happily took photographs in front of a Christmas tree and nativity scene set up in Bab Touma, at the entrance to old Damascus. The tree was an ...

A Druze commando entered the Franciscan convent, located in the Christian quarter of Bab-Touma (St. Paul) in the Old City of Damascus, and massacred the friars: Manuel Ruiz, Carmelo Bolta ...