I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

The delegation visited half a dozen of them. The winding streets of Damascus' old Jewish quarter. (Ayman Oghanna for NPR) Rabbi Yusuf Hamra reconnects with a former neighbor from the Jewish ...

All of this is because of the impurities in the fuel," he said. Most of the vehicles on the streets of Damascus are old, as sanctions imposed on the toppled regime prevented the import of new ...

In the winding, narrow streets of the capital's old Jewish quarter ... Rabbi Yusuf Hamra smells a citrus fruit with former neighbors in Old Damascus. "The scent of Damascus was orange blossoms ...