The New York Times travel section has a piece on Aleppo today: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/travel/24next.html?scp=1&sq=aleppo&st=cse and Damascus was one of its "31 Places To Go in 2010" - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/travel/10places.html .
Of course, since the Christmas bomber you may be subject to increased scrutiny on the way back. Even before that, security at Istanbul airport asked me a lot of questions about why I had visited Syria - but just questions.
NY Times discovers Syria
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I go in May so I hope I beat the barbarians!!
And finally we have our trip ready for April to visit Jordan and Syria...after reading thursdaysd's article, I'm glad that we are going now. Thanks again because all your "posts" helped me a great deal.
We are not looking forward to all the security checks!
"We are not looking forward to all the security checks!" - I felt that I got extra questions about Syria at Istanbul airport before my flight to JFK even before the Christmas bomber! Good luck - hope you have a wonderful trip - and tell us all about it [hint].