Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years ...

In the chaos, journalists have struggled to confirm statistics about fatalities, while waves of social media videos claim to ...

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The interior of a Herculaneum scroll, unseen for nearly 2,000 years, has been imaged for the first time with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), with expectations it will reveal brand new ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...

Some of the world’s oldest roadways are only memories now—but many have been preserved as historic monuments or improved to ...

Between March 7 and 8, the @Greco_Levantines World Wide, advocating for Greeks in Antiochia, Syria, reported on social ...

Israel’s expansionist ambitions continue to drive the erasure of Palestine, raising the critical question: Can the US and ...

The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and ...