In Damascus, life is cautiously returning to normal as residents step out of their homes into a Syria transformed by the ...

His artistically forged, welded and fabricated metalwork encompasses Damascus knives, swords and axes influenced by Saxon bladesmithing from the seventh to the ninth century. Owen forges a modern ...

He added that Israeli forces quickly captured Syrian positions outside Damascus to “ensure that ... Netanyahu called Assad’s downfall “a historic day” that offers “great opportunity.” ...

A day after the regime of President Bashar al-Assad fell, civilians poured into the streets of Damascus, weeping in disbelief. Many sought word of relatives held in a notorious prison on the ...

Recreating Damascus steel remains a holy grail of materials science. The exact process and alloys used are long ago lost to time. At best, modern steelworking methods are able to produce a rough ...

HTS, which has roots in al-Qaeda, is considered a terrorist group by the U.S. After a lightning 10-day offensive, rebel forces in Syria captured its capital, Damascus, and toppled the regime of ...

Lesch, author of The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria (Yale University Press, 2005) will present a lecture followed by a question and answer session.

The same day, rebel fighters came within kilometres of the capital, Damascus. By the evening, they had reached its suburbs, and in the early hours of the morning on December 8, fighters captured ...

Pacchiani reviews the latest in the stunning takeover of Syria by rebel forces followed by celebrations in the streets of Damascus as the Assad family appears to have fled the country. He ...

The Israeli military said it killed the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah's liaison with the Syrian army in an air strike on Damascus on Tuesday as a fragile six-day-old ceasefire stutters. "The ...