Not in the traditional sense that the people disappeared or that buildings were left to fall into ruin, but in the sense that a purpose was lost, swallowed by something much bigger, and an identity ...

This year, after Assad’s ouster in a lightning rebel offensive led by Sunni Islamist insurgents, the Shiite neighborhoods of Damascus were subdued. The hotels that were once brimming with religious ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Shiite pilgrims from Syria and abroad used to flock to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine outside of Damascus every year to commemorate Ashoura, a solemn day marking the 7th-century… ...

The 58-year-old simply lifts up his shirt — revealing a huge vertical ... Bakkar describes being wounded 10 years ago in an attack on his east Damascus neighborhood, and how he was rescued by the ...

Shiite worshippers enter at the shrine of al-Sayydah Zeinab, the grand daughter of Prophet Mohammed, where they attend Ashoura ritual, south of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, July 3, 2025.

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once bustling with pilgrims, the Sayyida Zeinab shrine area is now subdued, ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Shiite pilgrims from Syria and abroad used to flock to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine outside of Damascus every year to commemorate Ashoura, a solemn day marking the 7th-century ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria’s former President Bashar Assad July 6, 2025 at 1:19 a.m. EDT 2 minutes ago ...