The brocade fabric was brought from al-Muznar factory in Bab Sharqi neighbourhood in Damascus Old City and it had a drawing of “two love birds” exchanging kisses in a pattern known locally as ...

“We demand the rights of Christians,” protesters chanted as they marched through the Syrian capital towards the headquarters of the Orthodox patriarchate in the Bab Sharqi neighbourhoo ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that several regions in Syria have witnessed an escalating wave of targeted killings and individual acts of retribution. The organization noted ...

one should visit its archeological monuments including Naasan Palace at the entrance of Bab Sharqi. The Palace is the second most ancient Damascene house after al-Azzem Palace. It was built over ...

A suicide attacker using an explosive vest killed eight people and injured 16 in central Baghdad market, police and medical sources said on Thursday. A massive explosion ripped through the busy ...