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

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 ...

For an incurable antiquarian and aspiring epicurean, the old town of Damascus was a kind of ... proto-Arabic and Hebrew.

Israeli fire has killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and three more in the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours, ...

JARAMANA, Syria — Syria’s Druze minority has a long history of cutting their own path to survive among the country’s ...

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 ...

Mounties in BC say a 64-year-old Vancouver man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a man in 70 Mile House in December 2021. BC RCMP say 52-year-old The-Thanh ...