For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the ...

In The Orchards of Basra', Hisham, a bookseller, is drawn into the life of Yazid, an intellectual from ancient Basra, by a ...

Moaz Mustafa, head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, emphasized the significance of this visit—the first Jewish delegation in 33 years—and underscored the new government’s support for the return of ...

Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son, Henry, returned to Damascus for the first time since the 1990s when they fled Syria. They ...

Like many others, the doctor has come to protest in Karamé Square in the center of this predominantly Druze town, about 100 kilometers south of Damascus ... is the only way to “safeguard ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron urged Syria's interim government to cooperate with a U.S.-led coalition ...

So, let’s take the poster boy of “famous convert-turned-evangelist” himself as a case study: St. Paul, the patron of our lovely archdiocese. St. Paul, as we know, was converted on the road to Damascus ...

Islamic extremists like Hamas believe the Quran calls them to subjugate or kill non-Muslims, and to bring the entire world to heel under the boot of Sharia law. In pursuit of this goal, Islamic ...

DAMASCUS — Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al ...

Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar Al Assad's ouster.