On July 7, the Municipality of Jerusalem renamed a small square adjacent to Damascus Gate in honor of Elia Kahvedjian, an ...

Patrick Henry's Fred Selfe is the Bristol Herald Courier boys basketball coach of the year. The ambitious 30-year-old is the ...

Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayers at the Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards, despite the strict Israeli ...

A Rooftop in Jerusalem Michael Kinnamon Köehlerbooks, 248 pages, $27.95 It’s 1969, and Daniel, a loosely practicing Christian undergrad from Yale, enrolls in a junior-year abroad program at Tel Aviv ...

Once a regional powerhouse of drama, the country has struggled amid blocked funding channels and severed international ties ...

DAMASCUS, Va. – On Tuesday, he said he had no interest in buying the historic Old Mill. But on Saturday, Stuart Wright III, whose family had turned the Damascus landmark into a successful ...

Murder, arson and hundreds of police calls: Old schools are active crime scenes in this city Gary, Indiana, schools continue to sit vacant and dilapidated driving down property values and ...

The Karlstor at Karlsplatz (Stachus) is one of Munich's old city gates, now the western border of Munich's busy pedestrian zone. See more!

Historic Jeddah is situated on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. From the 7th century AD it was established as a major port for Indian Ocean trade routes, channelling goods to Mecca. It was also the ...

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Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,523 people and wounded 136,617, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated ...