The United Nations' special envoy for Syria said on Friday that now is the time for a "genuine, credible and inclusive ...

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.

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The situation is putting a damper on a typically festive season. Shopping in a market in Old Damascus ahead of Ramadan this week.Credit... Supported by By Raja Abdulrahim Photographs by Kiana ...

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Hamra expressed sadness at the state of the neighborhood he grew up, the Jewish Quarter southeast of Old Damascus. “It is empty of residents," he said. After visiting his old synagogue ...

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A group of Syrian Jews recently visited Damascus for the first time in over 30 years, Reuters reported. Rabbi Joseph Hamra, 77, and his son Henry, 48, visited a synagogue in the Syrian capital and ...

The clashes marked a major escalation in the challenge to the new government in Damascus, three months after insurgents took ...

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra steps into the more than 500-year-old Faranj synagogue in Damascus for the first time in more than three decades. He left Syria, along with most of the country's historic Jewish ...

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra smells a citrus fruit with former neighbors in Old Damascus. "The scent of Damascus was orange blossoms and jasmine," said his son Henry. The Syrian president sent a key advisor ...