JOBAR, Syria — In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region once ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- No place in Syria, or indeed in any other Arab nation, is quite like Demashq El-Qadeema, or Old Damascus, in the way it presents history with a contemporary human dimension.

After 13 years of civil war, Syria’s dwindling Jewish community can return to the Jobar Synagogue in Damascus, one of the world’s oldest, where they once gathered for prayers before the ...

History has left its mark on this isolated, ancient city, home to many empires over the last 5,000 years. History has left its mark on this isolated, ancient ...

Syria's capital is thought to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. At least 6,000 years before Christ, people called Damascus home.

In 2005, British travel writer Diana Darke bought an Ottoman-era courtyard house in the Old City of Damascus. One of the only foreigners to own property in the Roman-walled center of Syria’s ...

The cost of a home here has tripled in the past two years; it now costs around $500,000 to buy and restore a traditional home, plus another $80,000 for renovation permits.

JOBAR, Syria (AP) — In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region ...

In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region once came to pray.

After visiting the synagogue, Chamntoub returned to his home in old Damascus, close to the private Jewish school known as Maimonides that was founded in 1944 but has been closed for decades.