For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts to establish a ceasefire between the Turkish government and the PKK raise ...

In fact, the main character in the game was not a mysterious killer in a white cloak at all ... are scattered across three cities: Damascus, Acre and Jerusalem. As you can imagine, Altair doesn’t have ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The White Helmets did not dare set foot near Damascus for years after dictator Bashar al-Assad branded the ...

The choice of cabinet officials was seen as a litmus test for whether the rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad would deliver on ...

Syria’s new transitional government has been sworn in nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week ... For Henry Hamra, who fled Damascus as a teenager with his family in the 1990s ...

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 ...