Three months after the overthrow of President Bashar Assad, Syria is at a crossroads, the top U.N. envoy for the country says ...

Those kidnapped included a retired teacher, an engineering student and a mechanic, all of them Alawite - the minority sect of ...

As the breaking of the fast nears, a day’s worth of hunger pangs combine with jockeying among patrons desperate to get their ...

The White Helmets did not dare set foot near Damascus for years after dictator Bashar al-Assad branded the famed civic ...

MOHAMMAD HILWAN, 20, from the Old City in Damascus, on marook, a sweet bread eaten during Ramadan in Syria. Once a simple loaf, it now comes in a multitude of iterations, some unrecognizable from the ...

For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s, the 30 years since have been shadowed by worry for what they left behind. “I was just on the lookout the whole time. The ...

FILE - Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, left, and his son Henry take pictures as they visit the Al-Raqi synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. The Syrian-American Jewish family returned for the ...

The ousted Assad dictatorship kept lists of millions of wanted people. Now, Syrians are openly asking whether they “have a ...

and his son Henry lookout an old scripture at the Efranj synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. The Syrian-American Jewish family returned for the first time since emigrating from ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On a sunny and crisp Jerusalem winter day, a moderate crowd of vendors with old-fashioned trolleys, women wearing ...