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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...