It was a small act of teenage defiance that sparked a revolution, a moment forever inscribed in Syrian history.

Syria's new President Ahmed al-Sharaa met China's ambassador to Damascus in the first public engagement between the two ...

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the ...

U.N. special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has said that formation of a “new inclusive government” in Damascus by March 1 ...

There has been international pressure for al-Sharaa to follow through on promises of an inclusive political transition. U.N. special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said this week that formation of a ...

As Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry were visiting Damascus this week for the first time since emigrating from Syria to the United States more than three decades ago, they were met by former neighbo ...

Syrian first responders say some unexploded ordnance blew up inside a home in the country's northwest, killing four people, ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community and Syrian Jews abroad are trying to build bridges after Bashar al-Assad's ouster in the hope ...

Since rebels seized control of the Syrian capital, Damascus, in December, fighting between Turkish-backed forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has continued to flare in the northeast.

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Rabbi Yusuf Hamra and his son Henry visited Damascus for the first time since leaving Syria over three decades ago. Their ...

Syria’s small Jewish community held its first group prayer in decades Wednesday at a Damascus synagogue, celebrating the long ...