The Damascus Heritage Society Museum will close temporarily in about one month. Thanks to an easement and a 20-year lease from the county, the museum then will be expanded in the rear to include ...

Others have brought a sense of relief and joy. That was evident at the Al-Hamidiyah market in the heart of the old city of Damascus. It was once inaccessible to many Syrians. NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi ...

Hundreds of people have protested in Christian areas of the Syrian capital of Damascus after a video emerged ... tree in the Christian-majority town of Suqaylabiyah, near the city of Hama.

Others have brought a sense of relief and joy. That was evident at the Al-Hamidiyah market in the heart of the old city of Damascus. It was once inaccessible to many Syrians. NPR's Hadeel Al ...

Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and covered the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, ...

Most of the shops in Damascus’s old souk were open on Tuesday, some busy erasing traces of the rule of Bashar al-Assad who was ousted earlier this month, an AFP journalist said. “We have been working ...

Most of the shops in Damascus's old souk were open on Tuesday, some busy erasing traces of the rule of Bashar al-Assad who was ousted earlier this month, an AFP journalist said. "We have been ...

Syria’s de facto leader said Sunday it could take up to four years to hold elections in Syria, and that he plans to dissolve ...