Some restaurants and coffee shops in Syria were closed during the day Saturday while others opened as usual as observant Muslims began fasting during the holy month of ...

Before the fall of his regime in December, Syria's dictator Bashar Al Assad and his wife Asma embarked on victory tours of former rebel areas that had been captured by his forces. None was as brazen ...

This is not the Ireland I grew up in. It’s gone so far now! They are just letting everyone in,” he says, and I’m not sure if ...

(JTA) — Even as tensions between Israel and Syria ramped up in recent days, a small group of Syrian Jews recently celebrated ...

The Assad dictatorship is out, but Syria’s economy is in chaos after a civil war and recent policy shifts. The situation is ...

An ancient town in Syria is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is ...

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...

Following World War II, the international community largely resisted border changes, even in the context of decolonization, in fear of spreading instability, secession, and conquest. The 1975 Helsinki ...

Amid ongoing discussions over Donald Trump's plans for trying to resolve conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, the US president ...

The news is full of federal firings. Have you ever been fired? I have. Twice. The first time, it was by a phone call to my Damascus Hilton room in Syria. I w... Premium Content is available to ...

Syria’s new Islamist rulers kicked off a long-awaited national dialogue conference on Tuesday as a “rare historical ...

because Assad has only been gone for a few weeks and we still need time to get democracy in Syria.” Ketevan Asatiani-Hermann, ...