I love these Reuters pictures. A "big" pile of rubble in the foreground and all the buildings in back undamaged. I guess the real ruins are too dangerous to photograph. Much better to take smear pictures in Israel.

the Isaiah 17:1 prophecy of Damascus becoming a rock heap, totally destroyed won't come to pass. This is the time to move out of Damascus for those of you who live there or have relatives there. Tell them to get out. The most likely thing that will happen to Damascus is a nuclear attack on the city or the explosion of the WMD's from Iraq that are in Syria and Lebanon (Bakaa Valley in ELS Scripture codes) that probably include dirty nukes. Get out of there. Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city on Earth is about to be destroyed.