Youstina Khoury, a Christian nun kidnapped by an earlier iteration of the group now running Syria, has forgiven the former ...

While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...

Local and international experts are filling a government void, and have begun the process of mapping and assessing sites ...

Wrecked by Islamic State and years of war, Palmyra is finally at peace and aiming to rebuild.

Syrian authorities on Tuesday detained Egyptian fighter Ahmed al-Mansour days after he declared a new movement seeking to topple President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Mansour had previously joined ...

While relative peace and stability have followed the Assad regime’s collapse, the proposed educational changes have stoked worries about the country’s new Islamist leadership.

A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has revealed that some were crafted from Baltic ...

Mansour's arrest may ease Egyptian worries over HTS rise Egypt fears Syria's upheaval aids Islamist regrouping Egyptian media critical of Damascus power change, Brotherhood resurgence DAMASCUS ...

In his letter, Rabbi Hamra, whose father Avraham served as Syria's Chief Rabbi for 30 years, asked the leader to protect the ancient synagogues and graves across the country. "For thousands of ...

DAMASCUS – Syria’s Education Minister Nazir al-Qadri ... poetry relating to women and love and references to gods in ancient history courses and interpreting a Quranic verse about those ...