The Syrian government welcomed the decision and considered it “a launch toward a new stage of recovery. ” Syrians expressed ...

A lecture hosted by the Social Forum in Damascus on Tuesday highlighted Syria’s seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including ...

Syrians are learning a lot about their country after the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad. Some of these discoveries have stirred up grief and anger over lost relatives in horrific prisons.

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based Syrian Jewish religious... Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in ...

DAMASCUS — If there is a verbal expression of heartache, Rabbi Yusuf Hamra uttered it as he stepped inside the Faranj synagogue in the Syrian capital last week. It was the last place he had said ...

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra steps into the more than 500-year-old Faranj synagogue in Damascus for the first time in more than three decades. He left Syria, along with most of the country's historic Jewish ...