Between 2018 and 2019, the number of displaced people in the camp reached 50,000, most of them women and children, according to a Syrian media report. Syria has moved to close a large internally ...

Aug. 10, 2025 Updated Sun., Aug. 10, 2025 at 1:46 p.m. Residents ride past the ruins of buildings in Yarmouk, Syria, on March 14. Once the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, Yarmouk was home ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national transit ...

Syria is set to introduce a new series of banknotes that will feature no images, portraits, or national symbols. The redesign is part of a broader effort by the Central Bank to improve visual clarity, ...

(AP) The Obama administration, trying to avoid getting drawn deeper into Syria’s civil war, has pointed to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a symbol of what can go wrong when America’s ...

Syria has moved to close a large internally displaced persons (IDP) camp called Rukban, which was long a symbol of suffering in Syria. The camp was in southern Syria near the Jordanian border in the ...

On a ferociously hot summer morning, the inspectors stepped gingerly through an alley and cast a critical eye at the war-withered buildings in this sprawling Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of ...