The airstrikes came shortly before a top adviser to Iran's supreme leader, was scheduled for a meeting in the Syrian capital.

Syrian state-run media said Israel struck the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus Friday, the second such attack in two days to hit the neighbourhood home to embassies, security headquarters and ...

It is 50 years since writer Colin Thubron published his portrait of Damascus, in which he ... monument - the 8th-Century Ommayad Mosque. The first great mosque in Islam, it was built in the ...

It's a city inhabited for 11,000 years and has seen empires come and go, including the Greeks, Romans and Ottomans.

Edited by Liam Stack Video posted online showed a large explosion over Mount Qasioun in Damascus ... great, God is our only protector," as he films. A baby can be heard crying in the background ...

A view shows a damaged building in the aftermath of what Syrian state media reported was an Israeli strike in the Mezzah suburb, west of Damascus, Syria October 9, 2024. (photo credit: REUTERS ...

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The capital of Syria, Damascus, was shaped by some of the ... UNESCO hails Damascus's "impressive" Roman city walls and "incomparable" Great Mosque, praised as a masterpiece of Umayyad architecture.

Syrian and Western intelligence sources say Israeli attacks in Syria have killed scores of Hezbollah and pro-Iranian militia fighters based around the eastern outskirts of Damascus and to the ...

An Israeli strike on a residential building in the Sayeda Zainab district south of the Syrian capital Damascus killed seven civilians on Sunday, the Syrian defence ministry said, in the second such ...