For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the ...

Conflict and displacement have left much of Syria’s infrastructure in ruins. Entire towns are uninhabitable. Schools, hospitals, roads, water facilities, and electrical grids are damaged or destroyed.

Turkey’s ruling AKP views the fall of Assad in Syria as an opportunity to project power across the region. But the ...

A member of a group linked to al Qaeda has been killed in a U.S. airstrike, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a post on ...

If Syria is to rise from the Assad regime’s ashes, its people must resurrect the spirit of the 2011 uprising in the post-Assad era.

Landmarks including the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval Crusader castle of Crac des Chevaliers remain scarred by ...

Parents need to know that Independence Day is an action-packed science-fiction film about an alien invasion. Filled with scenes of the fiery destruction of entire cities and the people who live in ...

With Hutus at the helm, there was systematic repression of the Tutsis. This led to the formation of the Tutsi rebel group, ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by ...

Syria introduced mobile phone services only in 2000, after the government licensed two private companies: Syriatel and Areeba ...