DAMASCUS — If there is a verbal expression of heartache, Rabbi Yusuf Hamra uttered it as he stepped inside the Faranj synagogue in the Syrian capital last week. It was the last place he had said ...

Syrian-American Rabbi Youssef Hamra leads the first Jewish group prayer in Syria since the 1990s, in the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Old City. A security guard provided ...

Some 600 people from different parts of Syria were invited to the gathering in Damascus, hosted by the new authorities led by the Islamist former insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.

Now, after the revolution in Syria, a Syrian Jewish leader has returned to Damascus. NPR's Jane Arraf went along. YUSUF HAMRA: Wow, wow, wow. JANE ARRAF, BYLINE: It's been more than 30 years since ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Hundreds of Syrian politicians and activists gathered Tuesday in Damascus to endorse the opening steps of the country’s political transition, a milestone event after decades ...

Ahmed al-Shara, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, speaking at a mosque in Damascus, Syria, in December.Credit...Abdulaziz Ketaz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Supported ...