ALBAWABA - The restoration of the Damascus Sword monument in Umayyad Square has become a topic of heated debate in Syria ...

viewing them as monuments to idolatry, and beheaded an elderly antiquities scholar who had dedicated his life to overseeing the ruins. Between 2015 and 2017, control of Palmyra shifted between IS and ...

Following the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, experts are turning their attention to the country’s war-torn heritage sites, hoping to restore these treasures and revive a tourism industry ...

Greece has been deeply alarmed over the renewed violence that broke out in Syria last week, in which over 1,000 people are ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

PHUONG PHAM is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

In the Jordanian desert, Syrian families displaced by war huddle atop stacks of boxes like stalwart islands in a dry and ...

Just days ago hundreds of Alawite, Christian and Druze civilians—men, women and children—were killed by the Syrian forces ...

The Hamras, alongside Moustafa, are urging the U.S. government to lift sanctions on Syria to facilitate investment and ...

Once-thriving landmarks like the ancient city of Palmyra ... will eventually draw international visitors back. One of Syria’s six UNESCO World Heritage sites, Palmyra was once a key hub to ...