Inside Syria's ancient capital, a lone Jewish guardian watches over abandoned properties while Islamist rulers patrol the ...

After the fall of Syria's despotic Assad regime, life is slowly returning to one Damascus neighborhood, where the violence and painful memories of the past are still literally being unearthed.

Economy has been battered by corruption and 13 years of civil war. Coupled with international sanctions and mismanagement, ...

But since he and his fellow jihadists advanced from Idlib, their northern enclave, and toppled the Assads on December 8th, ...

“Syria lives, the regime has fallen!” elated young Syrians standing on chairs chanted in a packed bar near Damascus’ Old City. They wore shiny, cone-shaped party hats; held revolutionary ...

Azm, an archaeologist and former professor at Damascus University, left Syria with his family in 2006. He recently returned ...

That was evident at the Al-Hamidiyah market in the heart of the old city ... A visit to Damascus was not an easy prospect. (SOUNDBITE OF HORN HONKING) AL-SHALCHI: A leader from the Syrian National ...

You can’t extinguish fire with fire. You can’t address a mistake with another mistake. You have to correct the situation in ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian ...

Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told visiting Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Friday that he was ready to stem ...

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. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent ...