"The problem with America," says Amr, digging into a gelato, "is that everyone thinks Syria and Iran are like Trinidad and Tobago." We're sharing a park bench in a busy, modern part of Damascus. It's ...

The Criminal Investigation Branch in Damascus countryside has arrested several individuals involved in the sale and smuggling ...

A recent fire that devastated a neighbourhood of the Ancient City of Damascus raised the alarm about the need to protect the old city, inscribed on the World Heritage list, from future catastrophes ...

The trip, which was chronicled in the Times of Israel by its founding editor David Horovitz, was facilitated by Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the director of community relations for the Jewish Federation of ...

Air Arabia Abu Dhabi is launching three weekly non-stop flights to Damascus starting October 28, 2025, making travel between the UAE and Syria significantly easier and more affordable. Fares are ...

The faithful gathered for a more than symbolic rite at St. Elias Orthodox Church in Damascus — the Feast of all Antiochian Saints. During this June 22 service, a jihadist — Syria blamed the Islamic ...

The Decapolis (“ten cities”) was a group of cities in the Middle East where ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish cultures ...

Millennia of Jewish life in Syria came to a close in the 1990s. Today, only around half a dozen elderly Jews are believed to ...