PALMYRA, Syria — Abdurahman Abu Hamza ... a museum veteran of 34 years who was guarding the entrance gate of the National Museum in Damascus at the time. He extinguished a small fire that ...

Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has instilled ... The only access was through a gate controlled by armed soldiers. Inside the 1.4-square-kilometer complex, a ...

With a history stretching back to antiquity, tourists were drawn to ancient sites like Palmyra, a Greco-Roman city largely destroyed by ISIS and desert landscapes dotted with Crusader-era castles like ...

tourists were drawn to ancient sites like Palmyra, a Greco-Roman city largely destroyed by ISIS and desert landscapes dotted with Crusader-era castles like Krak des Chevaliers. Damascus is one of ...