Church leaders in Syria said they were working closely with the new leadership to ensure that religious freedom will be ...

The father of an old, estranged fiancé of mine once asked me why I raised our daughters Catholic. The implication was that religious faith seemingly clashed with my long-haired, hippy façade and ...

To grow oranges for profit and pleasure, was one of my prewar ambitions. And in the course of learning the business I met, at different times and places, some exceptional persons including Mustapha ...

With its wide boulevards and tree-lined neighborhoods, Homs bustled with business, an oil refinery, and agricultural production. Sunni and Alawite Muslims, Orthodox and Catholic Christians—diverse ...

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate of Moscow’s bases in Syria. By Paul Sonne and Christina Goldbaum ...

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and National Intelligence Agency (MİT) Chief İbrahim Kalın held key meetings in Damascus and Baghdad. Central to Ankara’s strategy is preventing the ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Sunday condemned the new authority in Damascus for recently holding an “illegal ...

What does the Bible reveal about the origin of the Etruscans? Can it help solve the ancient debate about where they came from?

As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

The map below shows the location of Jerusalem and Damascus. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance ...

DAMASCUS -Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, visited Damascus on Jan 30, the first visit by a head of state to the Syrian capital since the Dec 8 fall of President Bashar al-Assad to ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.