As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and ...

Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of spying for Iran, prompting speculation about why they were open to overtures from ...

Eighty-three-year-old Holocaust survivor Ludmila Lipovsky was ... that the terrorist was a Palestinian resident of the West Bank city of Tulkarm who had previously served a prison sentence in ...

Syria’s Druze minority is trying to navigate a new, uncertain Syria. Members of the small religious sect find themselves ...

The reported fighting in the capital, Damascus, and the second city of Aleppo were the first such clashes there since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

You can access the Old City from seven entryways: the New Gate, Damascus Gate, Herod's Gate, Lions' Gate, Dung Gate, Zion Gate, and Jaffa Gate. Each doorway marks a significant era of Jerusalem's ...

At first, Wala, a 29-year-old resident of the town ... national unity and civil peace,” he said on Sunday at a mosque in Damascus, according to video that circulated online.

The death toll has risen to more than 1,000 people after two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ...

While the SDF was largely uninvolved with those clashes, it has long been opposed to both the old and the new Syrian ... which was reached following a meeting in Damascus on Monday between interim ...

The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds ... Assad’s hometown, as Damascus scrambled to bring in reinforcements. Defense Ministry spokesperson Col.

It added that electricity and drinking water were cut off in large areas around the city of Latakia ... in the challenge to the new government in Damascus, three months after insurgents took ...