Three concentric circles of domestic, regional, and global actors compete for power and influence in Syria because of the ...

A high-ranking member of the ISIS terrorist group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in ...

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 ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was ravaged by Islamic State (IS) fighters after they seized large areas of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014.

Archaeologists have discovered that the famed monument of Rujm el-Hiri in the Golan Heights, popularly called “ Stonehenge of ...

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 ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that ...

A Syrian footballer who lost his eyesight while fleeing his war-torn home country has graduated from university in the UK. In 2014, Maher Fattouh, then aged 21, was caught in a bomb explosion as he ...

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 ...

The humble focaccia, a staple of modern Italian cuisine, traces its roots back nearly 9,000 years to the early farming ...

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.