Inquirer on MSN3h
‘Where’s the gold?’: How the Assads sucked Syria dry
From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit ...
A Michigan rabbi's visit to Syria offers hope for interfaith harmony
When Rabbi Asher Lopatin arrived two weeks ago in Syria for the first time, he was concerned, given the uncertain security ...
Israel’s military is told to prepare to defend a Druze community outside Syria’s capital
Israel’s defense ministry says the military has been instructed to prepare to defend a Druze settlement in the suburbs of ...
Anadolu Ajansi8h
1st National Syria Gathering Conference in Damascus: New era for reconstruction, development
More than 100 Syrian businessmen attend National Syria Gathering conference under government auspices - Anadolu Ajansı ...
The Forward on MSN2d
How a small delegation of US Jews got to Syria for the first time in decades
(JTA) — Even as tensions between Israel and Syria ramped up in recent days, a small group of Syrian Jews recently celebrated ...
WUNC3d
Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in decades, hoping to build bridges
Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...
The American Conservative1d
Trump Needs a Real Syria Policy
The president should decide whether to engage with the new leader in Damascus—and whether to withdraw U.S. troops from the ...
NBC News6d
National dialogue conference kicks off in Syria as battered country seeks to rebuild
Some 600 people from different parts of Syria were invited to the gathering in Damascus, hosted by the new authorities led by the Islamist former insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.
A Christian town in Syria keeps the biblical language of Aramaic alive. But it fears for its future
An ancient town in Syria is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used ...
Russia gambles to keep military bases in post-Assad Syria
For years, soldiers from Russia's Hmeimim Air Base in Syria roamed freely through coastal cities. War planes flew from the ...
Washington Examiner4d
Israel launches major airstrikes against Syria after announcing new policy to ‘pacify’
Rumors swirled after Israel’s strikes that it could set up a Druze autonomous state in Syria’s south as a bulwark against Damascus. Earlier this week, Druze militants proclaimed the formation ...
ABC News6d
Syria's national dialogue conference kicks off as the battered country seeks to rebuild
Some 600 people from different parts of Syria were invited to the gathering in Damascus, hosted by the new authorities led by the Islamist former insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.