DAMASCUS, Syria - The number of fuel vendors on the streets of Damascus has recently surged dramatically. They sell various ...

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Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

Palestinians fled the 1948 Mideast War and took refuge in neighboring Syria. After 77 years, they're still waiting to go back ...

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New York, United States - February 12, 2025 China's United Nations (UN) permanent representative, Fu Cong, called on the international community to provide meaningful assistance to Syria and prevent ...

By the standards of other cities I have been in or visited shortly after a revolution, Damascus seems on the face of it ...

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Sunny today with a high of 63 °F (17.2 °C) and a low of 39 °F (3.9 °C). Mostly cloudy today with a high of 63 °F (17.2 °C) and a low of 36 °F (2.2 °C). There is a 66% chance of ...

Mostly cloudy today with a high of 51 °F (10.6 °C) and a low of 32 °F (0 °C). There is a 51% chance of precipitation. Partly cloudy today with a high of 53 °F (11.7 °C) and a low of 35 °F ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation ... be occupied by a random woman from the street who is employed to occupy it.

Syria's new de facto government faces a host of challenges. One of its most pressing is also one of its most basic: keeping the lights on.