Friday is the day for public beheadings. — -- In ISIS controlled territory, Friday is the day for public beheadings and amputations for people who violate its strict Islamic rule, and whippings ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The ongoing siege on two Kurdish-majority neighborhoods in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo has ...

A humanitarian aid worker from Surrey who has been working in Syria for four and a half years says the situation in the country is "hopeful". Lucia Gobbi, 34, from Walton-on-Thames, works with the ...

Israeli intelligence has warned Iran is planning to organise a hit against Syria's interim president, as further reports ...

(RNS) — Millennia of Jewish life in Syria came to a close in the 1990s. Today, only around half a dozen elderly Jews are believed to remain. (RNS) — As Jews around the world were preparing for the new ...

In 2015, a group of Syrian refugee children saved a famous German school from disaster and breathed new life into a shrinking village. Nearly two years later, they’ve become an indispensable part of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — “This was a Jewish home, and so was that. These were all Jewish homes,” Badriyah Mousa Shatah said as she walked through Damascus’s historic Jewish Quarter, or the “Harat al-Yahud” ...

Ms. al-Assad’s cousin and Maher’s daughter, Sham al-Assad, also appeared to celebrate her 22nd birthday with an extravaganza, ...

We have an update now on the efforts to end the civil war in Syria. A second round of talks in Geneva this week ended in a stalemate. Both sides have raised questions about whether a third round will ...

Syria has foiled two separate Islamic State plots to assassinate President Ahmed al-Sharaa, two senior officials said, adding a personal dimension to the leader's plans to join a US-led coalition to ...

After five years, this week the civil war in Syria reached new levels of violence despite talk of an international commitment to a ceasefire. This week, Aleppo. Syria's largest city and a longtime ...

They are the oldest survivors of Syria's civil war. Men, women, grandparents, husbands and wives – over 100 years of age and far away from home. Often overlooked, but just as vulnerable as younger ...