Syria’s new government has swiftly ordered changes to school curriculums. Some Syrians say the move is a worrying sign of how ...

The Al-Watan newspaper said the crush happened during the distribution of free meals by a social media personality ...

With the future of the city in the balance, a cultural historian looks past the corruption, violence and trauma of recent ...

The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus was devastated by the Syrian civil war. The scene of violent clashes ...

Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist-led forces ...

Such ambitions must be put on hold because Trump’s reform plans also extend to the cleanup of the media world’s propaganda ...

Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa recently met with representatives of Christian minorities. The move was part of ongoing ...

One of the aspects often overlooked in Arab countries is the vital role that Christians have historically played and continue ...

Damascus started as a dairy farm town with segregated one and two room schoolhouses where many people earned their living as blacksmiths, carriage makers, peddlers, ice harvesters, milk deliverers ...

I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea and the novels of Walter Scott, so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and ...

Bashar al-Assad has gone but, as elation begins to be edged out by anxiety, what comes after authoritarianism?

Will unpalatable and uncomfortable truths continue to be swept under the carpet this year? The irresistible urge to avoid ...