A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

After 14 years of civil war in Syria, and a devastating earthquake, mountains of rubble clog the streets of Aleppo, hindering ...

A long-lost city dating back some 2,400 years has been discovered next to a temple dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cobra ...

"What is happening in Aleppo is terrible, and one should not worry excessively about whether to classify the atrocities as genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity," Naimark said in an email.

It was just another bombing in a complicated corner of the Middle East, but this one was important — the Associated Press ...

For centuries, the hakawati, an Arabic word meaning "storyteller," played an important role in Syria. In cafes, these men would sit in raised chairs and narrate wild tales to the crowds that gathered ...