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 ...

Lebanese and Syrian defense officials reached an agreement late Monday for a ceasefire to halt two days of clashes along the ...

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 ...

Most of the Dura-Europos synagogue frescoes, radiant with naive charm and poetic enchantment, tell Old Testament stories ...

The law will take its course on all," he told Reuters from the Damascus presidential palace ... the helm of a guerrilla ...

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

Prosecutors are seeking to certify a 16-year-old accused of fatally shooting a man as an adult, according to court documents. A court filing from Tuesday shows Anoka County prosecutors requesting ...