Syria-Lebanon border to DAMASCUS, Syria – The road to Damascus tells the story of a new Syria emerging from 54 years of authoritarian rule by one family – the Assads. At the border crossing between ...

Syrian civilians are fleeing the city of Homs as rebel forces march within a few miles of its parameter — a strategic point to capture in their campaign against Damascus. Thousands of residents began ...

new video loaded: Uncertainty and Hope on the Road to and from Damascus Thousands of Syrians have been traveling to and from the Lebanese border since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Some ...

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM getting out of Lebanon was at the Syrian side of the border where, as my traveling companion quipped, we were delayed by the “kind of mayhem that mocks the idea of a police state.” ...

On the road to Damascus, Saul of Tarsus, who we would later come to know as St. Paul, saw a blinding light and from it heard the voice of Christ who asked, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” It ...

SWEIDA, Syria — After applying for passports in Damascus, Lamis and her daughter found themselves wounded in a shooting while returning to Druze-majority Sweida, southern Syria, along the highway ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Four military transport planes flew over the Mediterranean into Beirut this week from bases in Brindisi and Prague, carrying the first hardware for a U.N. peacekeeping mission in ...

Damascus is my favorite Middle Eastern city. I love it not only for what locals call in English its “touristic” qualities, but also for the ones that remind me of my home in Iowa: both societies share ...