Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based Syrian Jewish religious figures last week was their first time back since then.

Delegation of American Jews visits Damascus for first time since Assad regime's fall, finding hospitality but Jewish sites in disrepair ...

Before the fall of his regime in December, Syria's dictator Bashar Al Assad and his wife Asma embarked on victory tours of ...

Syria's largest synagogue in Jobar, an eastern suburb of Damascus, was reduced to rubble during the nearly 14-year civil war that erupted after Assad's violent suppression of protests against him.

It was the last place he had said prayers before leaving ... in Jobar, a Damascus suburb, destroyed by regime forces along with mosques and churches during Syria's civil war.

"The last time I visited the synagogue here and prayed was before I travelled to America ... All of Syria's synagogues closed when civil war erupted in 2011, Hamra said. A historic synagogue in the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — As Rabbi ... historic synagogue in the suburb of Jobar, which was heavily damaged and looted during Syria's nearly 14-year civil war. “May God help us, this won’t be ...

"The last time I visited the synagogue here and prayed was before I traveled to America ... All of Syria's synagogues closed when civil war erupted in 2011, Hamra said. A historic synagogue in the ...