Three months following the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country said ...

A recent study by Dr. Ellen Green, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, analyzed the faunal assemblage ...

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many ...

A 19th-century Sunni sheik, Ibrahim al-Maghribi, decreed that Muslims might freely take Alawite property and lives, and a ...

WILSON Special to the Bristol Herald Courier Mar 4, 2025 Mar 4, 2025 0 DAMASCUS, Va ... With help from friends, the 75-year-old was able to retrieve many pieces of furniture from the house ...

Israel’s defense minister says Israel has “resumed fighting” in Gaza and is vowing to press ahead until all remaining hostages are released. In a brief statement, Defense Minister Israel Katz ...

Israel carried out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, southern Lebanon and southern Syria on Monday, killing at least 10 people, ...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun stated that the ongoing situation on the country's eastern and northeastern borders is ...

Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s ...

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule while ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government in Damascus and local Kurdish-led authorities QAMISHLI, Syria -- In ...