From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

Its leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is now the de facto leader of Syria, has emphasized religious harmony since taking power in Damascus. Sharaa was in the past critical of ISIS, describing its self ...

656—661: First civil war and religious schism lead to the establishment of the Umavyad caliphate at the new capital in Damascus ... advances into Europe at Battle of Tours, France.

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 ...

Syria’s Damascus airport will resume international flights on Tuesday for the first time since Bashar al-Assad was overthrown last month by armed opposition fighters. No flights had taken off or ...

International flights in and out of Syria’s main airport in Damascus will resume next week after being halted since rebels overthrew former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime last month.

My father took part in a far slower, but maybe more confused, capture of Damascus in July 1941: French government forces eventually withdrew to Beirut after a chaotic advance by a mixed and under ...

Germany's Annalena Baerbock and France's Jean-Noel Barrot are the first ministers from the EU to visit Syria since rebels seized control of Damascus on Dec. 8 and forced President Bashar al-Assad ...

The eastern flank of the former rebel stronghold, perched on the slopes of Mount Qasioun northeast of Damascus, is now nothing but a tangle of concrete and crushed metal. In this heap of dust ...

The French and German foreign ministers have met Syria’s new de facto rulers in Damascus, marking the first trip by top European officials to the country since the fall of former president ...