The stunning fall of the Syrian government early Sunday - a bloodless coup by Islamist rebels that ended the brutal 50-year ...

Schwartz's leadership, have been conducting their work for 16 years in the ancient city of Umm-el Marra in western Syria. The tomb where the alphabetic cylinders were found likely belonged to a ...

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Syrian opposition fighters announced ... online showing rebel fighters taking photos next to the ancient Citadel of Aleppo as they advanced through the ...

The earliest known example of alphabetic writing has been discovered etched onto small clay cylinders in an ancient Syrian tomb, which was excavated by researchers from Maryland’s Johns Hopkins ...

Exclusive: While Damascus airport is currently closed, daily flights connect the UK with Beirut, which is only 60 miles from ...

All of Syria’s churches, whether of the larger Orthodox community or Catholic, are facing an imminent existential threat both from the new authorities and general political chaos following the Assad ...

A drone view shows buildings and the ancient citadel ... Naim Qassem has pledged the Lebanese group will stand by the Syrian government amid an advance by “terrorist groups” trying to sow ...

The group’s leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani — a Syrian Islamist militant labeled a terrorist by the U.S. since 2013 — was featured in our 2021 documentary The Jihadist. On Dec. 1, National ...

How did a family that ruled Syria with an iron fist for fifty years ... And later, GZERO heads to Lebanon where ancient Roman ruins are under threat from Israeli attacks. Aired 12/13/2024 GZERO ...

The IS was controlling eastern Syrian cities of Raqaa and Deir Ezzor as well as the ancient city of Palmyra. Al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army were controlling parts of Idlib in the northwest.

according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitoring group's director Rami Abdel Rahman. Aleppo, an ancient city dominated by its landmark citadel, is home to two million people.

In just two weeks, rebel forces tore across Syria, shattering the stalemate left ... shaking fighters’ hands at the Umayyad Mosque, an ancient landmark in Damascus, and declaring “a victory ...