In Damascus, life is cautiously returning to normal as residents step out of their homes into a Syria transformed by the ...

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 ...

A Syrian family that survived a 2013 chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people near the country's capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to this day ...

The jaw-dropping footage shows Mohammad al-Shebli inside one of the Damascus prisons with the Wall ... as the date of his imprisonment matches the day Assad’s forces came to their neighborhood ...

Opposition fighters have taken over Hama, a major city on the road to the capital, Damascus The speed with which the status quo in Syria - however unresolved and unsatisfactory - has been turned on ...

He added that Israeli forces quickly captured Syrian positions outside Damascus to “ensure that ... Netanyahu called Assad’s downfall “a historic day” that offers “great opportunity.” ...

A day after the regime of President Bashar al-Assad fell, civilians poured into the streets of Damascus, weeping in disbelief. Many sought word of relatives held in a notorious prison on the ...

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 ...

HTS, which has roots in al-Qaeda, is considered a terrorist group by the U.S. After a lightning 10-day offensive, rebel forces in Syria captured its capital, Damascus, and toppled the regime of ...

Pacchiani reviews the latest in the stunning takeover of Syria by rebel forces followed by celebrations in the streets of Damascus as the Assad family appears to have fled the country. He ...