“Al-Khatib wasn’t about being guilty or not,” said Mustafa Nana, a 38-year-old ... Damascus manufacturer who refused to give his name so as to speak freely. Other resentments remain. The new ...

Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...

The new map - based on Bible scripture and archaeological ... The Garden Tomb is outside the Old City walls, near the Damascus Gate. Christian tradition says Jesus' body was laid on a slab cut ...

Two Russian ships docked at Syria’s main Mediterranean port last week, in what appears to be part of a large-scale withdrawal ...

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

"I remember leaving my school and seeing Old Damascus ... The New Arab on his fairly quick exit. “It was difficult to leave because it meant being uprooted, leaving everything I loved behind, and ...

F or a kid whose favorite subject was history, the Assassin’s Creed series was what I had hoped to see in a video game.

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...

According to social media posts, areas with significant Christian populations, such as Bab Toma in old Damascus ... activist in comparison. A United Nations report by its Security council from 2013 ...

Today, Matobato is out of the country, having fled in the company of two priests, a journalist, and a photographer from The New York Times ... Father Albert Alejo, a Jesuit priest and an old friend, ...

Mr. al-Shara otherwise appeared surprisingly amenable to cooperating with Russia, as opposed to Iran, Mr. al-Assad’s other key ally, which the new authorities in Damascus have said is no longer ...

Doha, Qatar: Syrian Minister of Interior, HE Ali Keda emphasized that the visit of HH the Amir sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani to Damascus carries ... key role in opening new opportunities for ...