Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria's two oldest active monasteries. But ...

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

The document, titled "Persecutions Against the Jews of Damascus ," was published in Paris in the same year and sold for 1 ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

Some non-Jewish locals, by contrast, have guarded ancient Torah scrolls ... (A relative of theirs had been making several ...

Rescuers, once targeted by the al-Assad regime, are a go-to resource for its successors, cleaning up unexploded bombs and ...

The elder Assad nevertheless fostered ties with the Sunni merchant classes of Damascus and Aleppo ... of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic Syria. Groups include the Greek ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...

Babylon’s soap-making legacy dates back to 2800 BCE, where ancient techniques shaped hygiene practices and influenced modern ...