The beads were identified as amber, something that was not common in Syria during the Iron Age and originated from the Baltic ...

Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing ...

By Eileen Travers More than 1,100 UN peacekeepers are currently deployed in the Golan, a demilitarised zone along the ...

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A Syrian footballer who lost his eyesight while fleeing his war-torn home country has graduated from university in the UK. In 2014, Maher Fattouh, then aged 21, was caught in a bomb explosion as he ...

The opening of 600 positions for Greek Orthodox priests in the diaspora is expected soon, Proto Thema reported. To date, a ...

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Addressing a joint press conference with Commander-in-Chief of the New Syrian Administration Ahmed al-Sharaa in the capital Damascus yesterday, HE Sheikh Mohammed said Doha hails measures to ...

Damascus: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani said that Qatar welcomes the new Syrian administration's positive moves ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Damascus, Syria, next week after a halt of more than a decade, officials said Wednesday following a visit by a delegation of ...

Our seven maps ... so unstable. Syria’s cities are among the oldest in the world, but the concept of Syria as a country only emerged in the 20th century. Between 1516 and 1918 Damascus and ...