DAMASCUS, March 4 (Xinhua ... Al-Qaboun, once a bustling district of the Syrian capital, now stands in ruins after years of war. Though the guns have largely fallen silent, the scars of ...

In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight years, I decided to see what remained of the city’s once flourishing Jewish ...

Before advancing on Damascus in December ... Today, entire residential neighborhoods are still in ruins, their residents killed, exiled or disappeared into Assad’s underground prisons.

Visiting the site of what had been Syria’s oldest synagogue of all, in the Jobar area of Damascus, Hamra found it in ruins from the war, with an ordnance shell still among the rubble.