Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have ...

The deputy director of the Syria-based Assyrian Democratic Organization, Bashir Saadi, corroborated to Rudaw that four ...

COMMENTARY: The mostly Christian small towns and villages located only a few miles away from where Alawite Muslims were ...

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

A man liberated by Syrian rebels from a prison near Damascus is identifying himself as a U.S. citizen who has been missing for months. The man, who identifies himself as Travis Timmerman ...

A group of Syrian Jews recently visited Damascus for the first time in over 30 years, Reuters reported. Rabbi Joseph Hamra, 77, and his son Henry, 48, visited a synagogue in the Syrian capital and ...

A 2nd-century gate in the Old City's Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital's multilayered history -- and complex present ...

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 ...