With its wide boulevards and tree-lined neighborhoods, Homs bustled with business, an oil refinery, and agricultural ...

Armenian Orthodox, Anglican, and Syriac Orthodox communities. Hundreds of Christians in Damascus protested last week after a Christmas tree was set on fire in a small town in central Syria.

Many Syrian Christians, who made up 10% of the population before ... Shambos visited both Lebanon and Syria over three days ...

Damascus (AFP) – In a Damascus courtyard, Syrian activists brainstormed strategies to ensure their country does not return to authoritarianism, in a scene unimaginable under president Bashar al ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

Last year, WFP ended its main assistance program which helped feed millions of Syrians, and has been gradually cutting programs that fed millions of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries.

The support for the new Syrian administration has been made possible by a US sanctions exemption issued by Washington on Monday, allowing for transactions with governing institutions in Syria for ...

An NBC News crew in Gaza filmed Amal Naser Al-Amoudi and her husband, Tony Al-Masri, as they prepped for Orthodox Christmas in a makeshift refugee camp that is now their home in Khan Younis.

DAMASCUS, Jan 6 — On the slopes of Mount Qasyun which overlooks Damascus, a network of tunnels links a military complex, tasked with defending the Syrian capital, to the presidential palace facing it.

The first 50 ultra-Orthodox soldiers were drafted for regular service in the Israel Defense Forces’ new Haredi brigade, known as the Hasmonean Brigade, the military said on Sunday. The ...

The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service.

Germany has reacted to the "handshake controversy" wherein Syrian de-facto ruler Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, best known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, refused to shake hands with German ...