Damascus is one of the oldest continually-inhabited cities in the world. Now ISIS is advancing toward Syria. Is anyone aware of a time when Damascus ceased to be a city and became a heap of ruins? Obviously, time will tell. Maybe ISIS will be defeated and this will happen 5000 years from now. It appears to me that this has not yet happened. It also appears quite possible that it will occur within, say, the next year or two. Am I missing something?