Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest known alphabetic writing in an ancient Syrian city, suggesting alphabets may be ...

Gazans can in many ways be thought of as a separate ethnicity from West Bank Palestinians. This is because Gazans have ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

The Middle Eastern country had been ruled by outside powers and dictators for centuries before its revolution was realized.

Earlier this week, the Telegraph reported from Palmyra, the ancient prize that was only wrested from Islamic State’s blood-stained grasp in 2016 (and again in 2017) by Syrian government troops ...

Israeli fighter jets have launched hundreds of airstrikes, while soldiers have seized a buffer zone and captured military posts in territory formerly under Syrian control. The Syrian Observatory ...

We drove the backbone of Syria, north from Damascus through Homs and Hama to Aleppo, and then south west, through the towns and villages of southern Idlib. The scale of the devastation is almost ...

Tens of thousands of minorities fearing persecution have fled Syria since its takeover by the Sunni Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham on Dec. 8, 2024. While the group has promised to respect ...

People still reference the meme today, captioning photos vaguely reminiscent of that pose — from ancient statues to video ...

Mouaz Moustafa, the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), said the regime’s victims were found in al-Qutayfah, about 25 miles north of the capital. “One hundred ...