This is the eleventh part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some ...

The risk tolerance of Christians appears to have shifted from a generation ago. We are now far more reluctant to take risks ...

The great English poet, John Milton, explained why this is inevitable ... but when and how this is to be done remains wholly unclear. The quote in the column above from Paradise Lost is from ...

DAMASCUS - The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday meetings he had with Syria's new leaders in Damascus were a first step towards ending years of ...

"What we see here today is the Syria that I love... the music, the people who have come to listen that's the best image of Damascus," she said, beaming, and wearing a white hijab. She expressed ...

OPCW head expected to meet Syrian interim president Previous Assad government hindered chemical weapons inspections DAMASCUS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of ...

Emotions were running high among the dozens of Syrians gathered at the Zawaya Art Gallery in the heart of Damascus on January 15 for a screening that would be unprecedented in every way.

The arrival of the first top Russian diplomat in Damascus since Bashar al-Assad’s fall kicks off negotiations over the fate of Moscow’s bases in Syria. By Paul Sonne and Christina Goldbaum ...

To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical concert at the Damascus opera house since president Bashar al-Assad ...