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.

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 ...

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.

DAMASCUS, Syria — Somewhere between the Christian and historical Jewish quarters of Old Damascus, labyrinthine alleys lead to a nondescript cobblestone tunnel that opens onto an Ottoman-era home ...

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.

DAMASCUS, Syria — Scenes from the old, walled city of Damascus: ... The old city also is home to storied Straight Street, where, as the Bible recounts, St. Paul regained his sight and was baptized.

The road to recovery: Old Damascus has a long history of rising from the ashes. A Syrian architect reveals what makes her home town so special – and how locals will always rebuild it no matter ...

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.

Visiting the market in the old city of Damascus, ... Many Syrians fled their homes when the Assad regime clamped down on peaceful protests in 2011, triggering the 13-year civil war.

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 ...