In recent years, “Syria” and “Syrians” have become associated with destroyed houses, refugees, war crimes, and terror. Luckily, this was not the case at the ...

A British adventure travel operator is planning to launch holidays in Syria “as soon as stability returns” to the war-torn nation. The UK government has opened discussions with the Syrian rebels who ...

DAMASCUS, Syria May 21, 2010? -- Country music has little of a fan base in the Middle East. The crowd of Syrians that filed into Tishreen Park was mostly propelled by curiosity for a rare concert of ...

While the humanitarian situation in Syria is of critical importance, the risk of losing ancient historical sites is also an issue that has to be addressed. There are six Syrian cities, including ...

PALMYRA, Syria (AP) — Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving tourism, which they say could provide a much-needed ...

DAMASCUS, 29 August (BelTA - SANA) - The Syrian Cultural Heritage constitutes a prominent landmark in the record of documenting human civilization since the emergence of the first human, as it is ...

As Syria's brutal almost 14-year civil war comes to an end, heritage experts are working to protect the remains of the country's battered cultural riches — and to reconstruct them. Images of ruined ...

UNESCO will establish an observatory in Beirut (Lebanon) to monitor and assess the state of Syria’s cultural heritage. The decision was made during an international meeting of experts held at UNESCO ...

Saudi Culture Minister Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan underscored on Friday the cultural ties that bind the Kingdom with ...

A picture Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of Turkey’s banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is displayed inside a petrol station in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli, Sunday, Jan. 26, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - As the world argues over how to prevent more civilian deaths in Syria, UNESCO warned on Thursday that a rich cultural heritage was being devastated by the conflict now in its third ...