A Syrian artist says restoration work on icons brings together history, chemistry, and art — and that protecting an icon is ...

For more than a century, scholars have known that the ancient city of Emesa, now the Syrian city of Homs, once housed a ...

Al-Sharaa became the first Syrian head of state to speak at the United Nations since Noureddine Attasi gave a speech in 1967 shortly after the Arab-Israeli war, during which Damascus lost control of ...

Located at Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza, the sculpture honors Little Syria, which from the 1880s to the 1940s was home to a ...

Political scientist Neep (Occupying Syria Under the French Mandate) offers a nuanced history of Syria since the 1800s. Then as now, the region comprised a diverse mix of ethnic and religious groups; ...

It’s difficult to look at the Middle East today and be optimistic. Every U.S. president since the turn of the century has entered office promising to strike peace agreements in this region, only to ...

Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor on Wednesday approved the registration of a Jewish organization for the first time in the country’s history. Hind Kabawat, the first woman appointed to ...