His artistically forged, welded and fabricated metalwork encompasses Damascus knives, swords and axes influenced by Saxon bladesmithing from the seventh to the ninth century. Owen forges a modern ...

Opposition fighters have taken over Hama, a major city on the road to the capital, Damascus The speed with which the status quo in Syria - however unresolved and unsatisfactory - has been turned on ...

New Delhi: The modern-day Syria with its capital in Damascus is considered as an Arab Islamic country where the majority of population comprises Sunni Muslims, about 74 per cent followed by Shia ...

Lesch, author of The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria (Yale University Press, 2005) will present a lecture followed by a question and answer session.

"We discussed this in a very detailed and very clear manner," Baerbock told reporters after meeting Sharaa in the People's Palace in Damascus ... worldwide every day. Reuters provides business ...

In a region “already on fire,” analysts say, rebels’ advance toward Damascus is a barometer of the shifting power dynamics that also affect nations like Iran, Turkey, Russia and the United ...