American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump ...

After the decades away, Yusuf Hamra’s former Christian neighbors in the old city of Damascus recognized him ... to see tiny children begging in the streets — a result, he said, of the sanctions.

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

Developers no longer have to provide off-street parking ... Yusuf Hamra’s former Christian neighbors in the old city of Damascus recognized him on his trip back last month and stopped to ...