A 2nd-century gate in the Old City's Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital's multilayered history -- and complex present ...

Gaziantep has ancient roots ... Larissa’s daughter. The site is located west of the city and was built in the 6th century B.C. Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities ...

ARTEFACTS made from extraterrestrial metal have been discovered by archaeologists in two ancient cemeteries in ... It significantly predates Damascus steel, which is used in modern knives.

The carvings offer a window into AlUla’s past, but its present is a story still unfolding. Here, nature and heritage converge, with open-air museums emerging amidst the desert’s timeless expanse — ...

Some non-Jewish locals, by contrast, have guarded ancient Torah scrolls ... Rabbi Asher Lopatin poses at a Jewish historic ...

A group of American Jews, who fled Syria decades ago, have made an emotional appeal to the White House. They are asking the U ...

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

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...

After the Syrian government launched a chemical attack on the rebel-held area of Douma, Syria, in 2018, some of the survivors were forced to falsely testify it never happened. Now, some of those ...

An Israeli drone strike killed two people in Gaza on Friday, local Palestinian medical authorities said, underscoring the ...