It has always been a dream to return here,” said Abu Hamza, one of the few visitors to Palmyra since last month’s downfall of ...

The residential architecture of late antique (third- to sixth-century) Syria, albeit in ruins, is far better preserved than anywhere else in the ancient world, a phenomenon noted by the first modern ...

Youstina Khoury, a Christian nun kidnapped by an earlier iteration of the group now running Syria, has forgiven the former ...

There were 50,000 Jews in Syria at the beginning of the 20th century – an ancient and historic community dating to antiquity. The Jews of Syria were divided by city origin, with two old ...

In an ancient city in Syria, excavations made nearly a century ago are now revealing new details, researchers said. Joe Planas via Unsplash Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to ...

Scholars also worry about the ruins of Roman-era synagogues in Syria’s ancient cities, such as Apamea and Dura-Europos. Satellite imaging has shown that Dura-Europos was heavily looted while ...

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight. Yet the days when awestruck tourists would clamber through the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s ...

Assad's regime, Russia lost a key ally in the Middle East -but it still hopes to keeps its military bases in Syria.

ISLAMIC STATE (Isis) militants captured the central Syrian city of Tadmur yesterday, overrunning the ancient ruins of Palmyra to the south. Syrian troops were forced to withdraw from the city in the ...

We drove the backbone of Syria, north from Damascus through Homs and Hama to Aleppo, and then south west, through the towns and villages of southern Idlib.

The speech echoed many of the themes he sounded at his first inauguration in 2017 when he spoke darkly of the "American carnage" of crime and job loss that he said had ravaged the country.

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...