The world's oldest city has been lived in for 11,000 years, but it isn't Jerusalem or Athens. Damascus was founded in the third millennium BC, with excavations on the city's outskirts showing it ...

AL-SHALCHI: "Yes, it's much busier because of people who weren't able to come to Damascus before," he says. Many Syrians fled their homes when the Assad regime clamped down on peaceful protests in ...

Visiting the market in the old city of Damascus, once inaccessible to many Syrians Hadeel Al-Shalchi December 27, 2024 / 3:09 pm 5 mins ...