American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump ...

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been ...

After a period of relative calm in western Syria, the reported attacks raised the specter of continued sectarian conflict in ...

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and his son Henry lookout an old scripture at the Efranj synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. The Syrian-American Jewish family returned for the first time since emigrating from ...

Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase.

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

After the decades away, Yusuf Hamra’s former Christian neighbors in the old city of Damascus recognized him on his trip back last month and stopped to embrace him, and share gossip on old ...

I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

As pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon, Syrian security forces were directed to keep communication devices away ...