The Assad regime cultivated ethnic and religious divides that threaten Syria's future even after the dynasty's fall.
What returning to Syria in the midst of the euphoria and horror of uncovering the al-Assads’ mass graves felt like.
The rebels capturing Damascus marked a turning point for Syria, which had been shattered by more than 13 years of war which ...
Among the sacred places mentioned in Islamic sources are Mecca, Sinai, and Jerusalem, but also Syria (the Shām) and ...
With the stunning change of leadership in Syria and the end of a 50-year reign of the Assad regime, the significance of religious history in Syria shouldn't be overlooked. Most Syrians are now Muslim, ...
“There is a very big Jewish quarter in old Damascus ... As Syria hurtles into a new era, the fate of its heritage sites hangs in the balance. The country’s gems of Jewish history will ...
After fifty-four years of Assad family dictatorship collapsed in a few days, a new Syria is going to be born. Every decent ...
the religious history there remains a part of the Christian Bible, where Syria is mentioned 25 times. And it was on that "road to Damascus" that Saul/Paul was struck blind and converted to be a ...
For the first time in a decade, US diplomats are in Damascus to hold official meetings with Syria's new de facto rulers led ...