Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor on Wednesday approved the registration of a Jewish organization for the first time in the country’s history. Hind Kabawat, the first woman appointed to ...

A Jewish heritage foundation has set out to help restore private property appropriated after Syrian Jews left the country.

Tens of thousands of Syrians flooded the streets of Damascus on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the Assad regime’s collapse. The celebrations came a year after former Syrian dictator Bashar al ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of civilians carry bags and belongings as they flee following renewed clashes between the Syrian army and the Syrian ...

BEIRUT — Henry Hamra vividly recalls the day he was allowed to leave Syria. His uncle, the Jewish community’s rabbi, was called in for a meeting with Syria’s president at the time, Hafez al-Assad. “He ...

There is a town called Busra al-Sham in southern Syria near the Jordanian border. It is part of the Daraa Governorate that runs along the Jordanian border. During the years of the Syrian civil war, it ...

BEIRUT — An eruption of violence in Syria this week entangled government forces, Bedouin tribes, the Druze religious minority and neighboring Israel, and highlighted just how combustible the country ...

It’s difficult to look at the Middle East today and be optimistic. Every U.S. president since the turn of the century has entered office promising to strike peace agreements in this region, only to ...

Syria’s state-owned petroleum company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chevron and a Qatari energy investment company to develop the country’s first offshore oil and gas field ...