The charismatic Italian monk's monastery, who disappeared after trying to mediate with the Islamic State, is returning to its ...

Father Jihad Youssef walks down stairs at Deir Mar Musa, also known as the Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian, in Al Nabk north of Damascus on Saturday (AFP photo) NABEK, Syria — In a ...

is located between Saidnaya and the Cherubim Monastery. Many churches in Syria were decimated because of the civil war that plagued the country. Among the most prominent, IS gangs obliterated the ...

Petzold was one of the Mar Musa monks sent to Iraq to give life to the project, and he has been there ever since.

QAMISHLI, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for Islamic State-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the first-ever return of detainees to Syrian areas ...

Tens of thousands of people have been detained or gone missing in Syria during more than a decade of conflict, many disappearing into Assad's jails. His December overthrow has enabled his friends at ...

Nabek (Syria) (AFP) – In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on his legacy, hopeful Bashar al-Assad's ouster ...

Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, an Italian Jesuit priest and critic of Bashar al-Assad, disappeared in 2013 while negotiating with extremists in Syria. Friends at Deir Mar Musa monastery, where he ...