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. (AP Video by Ghaith Alsayed)

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Some see Syria’s Qadam station in Damascus as a symbol of revival after war | AP explains

Name: Some see Syria's Qadam station in Damascus as a symbol of revival after war | AP explains
Uploaded: 2025-01-18T03:06:13.522Z
Duration: 56 s
Description: 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. (AP Video by Ghaith Alsayed)

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. (AP Video by Ghaith Alsayed)