People clean a shop that was damaged after clashes erupted between members of the minority Druze sect and pro-government ...

Syria said Israel launched new strikes near Damascus on Wednesday, after sectarian clashes left nearly 40 dead in two days ...

Farmland rolling outside Damascus. Today, the city and the surrounding area are heavily contested between the Assad regime and Syria's various rebel groups.

Personal photos of ousted ... in the hills of Damascus and Aleppo, offer a stark contrast to the polished, glamorous image ...

Though Syria saw a number of coups d'etat in the 1960s and in the decades before and after, Cushman's photos of downtown Damascus in 1965 paint a more mundane picture, showing families gathering ...