For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the ...

In November 2017, after a lengthy meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, Donald Trump boasted that he and Xi can solve ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

Robert Plot’s map of 1682 was the first large and highly detailed map of the county, and marked something of a milestone. 18 th century maps of the county improved in accuracy, with the addition of ...

If you are, say, in Mosul or Baghdad, in Damascus or Aleppo, in Gaza or Hebron ... from the “decision” to drop the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the practice of nuclear deterrence, ...

The unearthing of the tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II is being described as one of the most important ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. DAMASCUS, Syria - The number of fuel vendors on the streets of Damascus has recently surged dramatically ...

Image: Destroyed Damascus suburbs First, I have to admit that apart from a couple of brief visits to Damascus before 2011, once the uprising began, I was either in the west or north of the country ...

Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, the city saw much of its heritage destroyed ...

The 4 Nations Face-Off will take place in Montreal and Boston from Feb. 12-20. It is a best-on-best tournament with teams from Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States featuring NHL players only.

This wall, located in the heart of the Old City, is a remnant of King Herod's renovation of the Second Temple and dates back to the first century B.C. Millions of pilgrims (Jewish and non-Jewish ...