A 2nd-century gate in the Old City's Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital's multilayered history -- and complex present ...

An ancient town in Syria is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used ...

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.

Located in the Christian Quarter of the Old City, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre welcomes visitors every day (hours may vary), and admission is free. You should dress modestly. You can learn ...

Hamra expressed sadness at the state of the neighborhood he grew up, the Jewish Quarter southeast of Old Damascus ... in the city after 1099, when Christian armies conquered Jerusalem in ...

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. — LOUAI BESHARA Syria's tiny ...