In Damascus again after a hiatus of nearly eight ... there,” the bearded young man told us matter-of-factly. “And no photos. This is a Jewish religious site. And of course, we respect all ...

Surely it is a notable thing to have good pictures of Damascus and of Baalbek, with its grand old relics of the times when the Emperors of Rome built temples in Asia Minor. Our only criticism is that ...

Archaeologists discovered the coins buried near a collapsed wall close to the ruins of an old synagogue ... The ancient village of Huqoq is mentioned in the Bible’s Books of Joshua and Chronicles and ...

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

Its people are trying to move on, but many remain in the midst of the ruins, and rebuilding remains a distant hope. From the Umayyad Square in Damascus, we jumped onto the back of a pick-up truck ...

The suburb’s famous markets drew buyers from across Damascus, with Yarmouk often viewed as the capital of the Palestinian diaspora. Only a few small shops and stalls now serve the estimated ...

The period between the two major feasts of St Paul, namely January 25, his conversion on the road to Damascus, and February 10, his shipwreck in Malta, are not just important calendar events ...

The long anticipated return home for residents of the Syrian town of Tel Rifaat, displaced since 2014, has collided with a ...

DAMASCUS, Va. — Vice President JD Vance pledged the federal government will do more to assist residents of this tiny community rebuild in the wake of disastrous flooding caused by Hurricane ...