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Couldn’t possibly be prouder,” Duwaji wrote on Instagram after the Queens assemblyman’s historic win, which, if elected, ...

Rama Duwaji’s Election Day post on Instagram was only four words long, but said all it needed to say: “couldn’t possibly be ...

After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the ...

Syrian rebels seized Damascus on Sunday, and long-time President Bashar Assad fled the battle-scarred country amid the stunning collapse of his regime after 13 years of war. Assad and his family ...

Damascus, Syria, holds the record as the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, surviving for over 11,000 years. Despite ...

Since the fall of the Assad regime, "widespread poverty" and the "collapse" of the nation's "once-feared security apparatus" have sparked a "gold rush" of looters, robbing 2000-year-old graves for ...

The Al-Kharrat family in Syria has kept the tradition of Sema, or the dance of the whirling dervishes, alive for decades. Under the Assad regime, they faced restrictions on permits and traveling ...

A contractor in Syria discovered an ancient underground Byzantine tomb complex believed to be 1,500 years old below a destroyed home. The grave site was found last month in the town of Maarat al ...

Researchers Used a 1,500-Year-Old Map to Find a Lost City. Excavators determined Tharais was a religious hub of the Byzantine empire. By Emma Frederickson Published: Jun 06, 2025 8:00 AM EDT.

Billboards thanking President Trump have popped up across Damascus, Syria’s capital city. CNN’s Clarissa Ward meets the woman trying to “Make Syria Great Again.” ...

Throughout my time in Damascus, I stayed in the house I had bought in the Old City in 2005, living alongside my Syrian friends who have been there for the last decade.