In 2012, the Air Force Intelligence service, among the state’s most feared security branches, arrested al-Hamada after he smuggled baby formula into a besieged Damascus suburb. For nearly two ...
Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades on Feb. 19, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old ...
Commissioned in 1753 by the Ottoman Governor of Damascus, As’ad Pasha al-Azem, this sprawling caravanserai was designed to be ...