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 hub

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 hub. But more than a decade of war left it a wasteland of bullet-scarred walls and twisted steel.

By Islam Salah Imagine a world without highways, planes, or ships—where goods and ideas traveled on the backs of camels along dusty trails carved through deserts and mountains. This was the world of the ancient Middle East,

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsu

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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 hub. The Qadam station's remaining staff say they still have an attachment to the railway and hope that it,

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