In a landmark move signaling a new chapter in Middle Eastern diplomacy, Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa embarked on ...

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...

After Donald Trump’s meeting this week with Benjamin Netanyahu, there are fears that the long-term human tragedy for ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

In Arabic, Assad means “lion,” although that wasn’t his real name. Hafez, Bashar’s father, had adopted it to look strong. Hasan was born in the northeastern Syrian city of Manbij, 18 years before the ...

For collectors, historians, and artisans, Exquisite Knives serves as a testament to the enduring allure of handcrafted blades ...

During the 1980s, his mother married a man with whom they settled in Colorado Springs. Jones clashed with his stepfather, the ...

Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are weighing whether to trust them.

A local pilgrimage that kicked off in January in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offers an opportunity to celebrate the newly canonized Martyrs of Damascus and to, in prayer, walk ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched ...

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, ...

Hama is located in present-day western Syria, about a 136-mile drive from the nation’s capital of Damascus along the eastern border of Lebanon. The research team includes Hald, Martin N. Mortensen, ...