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 ...

Hundreds of Syrian protesters gathered Thursday at Umayyad Square in Damascus for the first time ... in the incoming government to help build a modern Syria free from sectarian and religious ...

a modern living room, a bathroom, and discarded shopping bags are also visible in this disturbing clip. The video was reportedly recorded under Maher al-Assad's mansion in Damascus. Notably ...

They say the city seems theirs again. Mount Qasioun, which overlooks the Syrian capital, Damascus, is being revived as a leisure spot. Residents of Syria’s capital are picnicking on a once ...

Strikes on a military base in the rural area of Damascus, Syria, took place on Thursday afternoon, according to Arab media reports. The strikes were attributed to Israel and said to be a raid on ...

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.

Recreating Damascus steel remains a holy grail of materials science. The exact process and alloys used are long ago lost to time. At best, modern steelworking methods are able to produce a rough ...

The rebel factions' joint operations room, headed by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, "announces a curfew in the city of Damascus starting from 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) until 5:00 am (0200 GMT)" on Monday, it said ...