PALMYRA, Syria — Abdurahman Abu Hamza, a farmer from the Syrian city of Deir Ezzour, last visited the ancient ruins of ...

BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

Khaldoun Al Raba, 32, has fond memories of his days guiding tourists around the ancient ruins of Palmyra, deep in the Syrian ...

With its wide boulevards and tree-lined neighborhoods, Homs bustled with business, an oil refinery, and agricultural production. Sunni and Alawite Muslims, Orthodox and Catholic Christians—diverse ...

The suspect, a Syrian national identified as Ossama A ... Islamic State viewed the Yazidis, an ancient religious minority, as devil worshippers and killed more than 3,000 of them, as well as ...

A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has revealed that some were crafted from Baltic ...

Within weeks, that city was also under fire, so they left again, this time for Tadmur, a city known at home and abroad for its glorious ancient Roman ruins at Palmyra. (And, in Syria, also for its ...

those whose families lived in Syria since ancient times and those whose families came to Syria in the 16th century after the fall of Andalusia and the expulsion of Jews from Spain. Jews in Syria ...

While relative peace and stability have followed the Assad regime’s collapse, the proposed educational changes have stoked worries about the country’s new Islamist leadership.

Image Syrian fighters investigating an overturned ... A fabled city centered around an ancient citadel, Aleppo was the site of grueling fighting when the 2011 peaceful uprising spiraled into ...