Vendors display traditional pickles and sweets as residents shop for breakfast, known as Iftar, on the first day of Ramadan, ...

I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

Flowers fell from a Syrian army helicopter on Saturday, strewn over Damascus alongside scraps of paper with messages of ...

The Canadian government on Wednesday announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of transition.

Umayyad Mosque at sunset – a Christian basilica in a previous life, a Roman temple to Jupiter before that.Credit: iStock For ...

People chant and wave national flags as they celebrate the fourteenth anniversary of Syria's uprising at a rally in Umayyad Square in Damascus today (AFP photo) DAMASCUS — Syrians gathered on Saturday ...

“15/3/2025 same date but we are now victorious,” read a poster carried by a man at Damascus’ Umayyad Square, as helicopter gunships dropped flowers on the gathering. Up until ...

A poster reading “15/3/2025, same date but we are now victorious” was carried by a man at Damascus’ Umayyad Square as helicopter gunships dropped flowers on those gathered. Until recently ...