Kurds in Iraq and Syria celebrate the Newroz festival of spring at a time of new political horizons
Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many ...
Syrian Jews’ homecoming brings hope for reconstruction and a permanent return after decades in exile
As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States more than three decades ago, they were met by former ...
‘Do not leave any Alawites alive’: call to prevent genocide in Syria
A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...
Sydney Morning Herald8d
A country too dangerous to visit is one I can’t wait to return to
Most of the Dura-Europos synagogue frescoes, radiant with naive charm and poetic enchantment, tell Old Testament stories ...
Syrian leader signs constitution that puts the country under an Islamist group’s rule for 5 years
Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule while ...
The Associated Press on MSN14d
American Jews who fled Syria ask White House to lift sanctions so they can rebuild in Damascus
For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s, the 30 years since have been shadowed by worry ...
France 24 on MSN4d
Lebanon and Syria agree to ceasefire after 2 days of border clashes, Syrian defense ministry says
Lebanese and Syrian defense officials reached an agreement late Monday for a ceasefire to halt two days of clashes along the ...
Syria's Druze seek a place in a changing nation, navigating pressures from the government and Israel
JARAMANA, Syria — Syria’s Druze minority has a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country’s ...
UN urges Syria to act fast to protect people as hundreds of civilians killed
More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...
The Gazette12d
New Syrian leader Sharaa says killings of Alawites threaten unity, vows justice
The law will take its course on all," he told Reuters from the Damascus presidential palace ... the helm of a guerrilla ...