Unlike Jesus in the New Testament or Moses in the Torah ... difficult to assert that the rulers of the Umayyad dynasty in Damascus were Muslims, as this may be a retroactive invention of the ...

If Washington listens to Israel and facilitates the return of the Russians, it will have reversed the one good thing to have come out of America’s involvement in Assad’s ouster.

to get a sense of the geographical flow of the four canonical Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles; to learn about the major NT events that ... in ancient & Herodian times (same place, name ...

The overnight clash in Damascus appeared to have been contained, but it has heightened concerns that the violence sweeping ...

The agreement marked a major victory for Damascus in its quest to unify the country, as violent unrest continues to grip ...

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the ...

The Assad dictatorship is out, but Syria’s economy is in chaos after a civil war and recent policy shifts. The situation is ...

The country’s new leaders had billed a two-day “national dialogue” in Damascus as the start of a process to build an ...

An uneasy calm prevailed in the town on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, two days after a gunfight between local men and ...

At least 16 government security personnel were killed in a coastal region that was long a stronghold of the toppled Syrian ...

Two days of fighting along the Mediterranean coast were among the bloodiest battles since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar ...