Unknown individuals broke into the Jewish cemetery in Damascus on Wednesday night and desecrated the grave of Rabbi Chaim Vital, a leading kabbalist and leading student of Ha’Ari Hakadosh ...

When a delegation of US Jews visited Syria at the invitation of the interim government in February, one of their stops was to a small shrine in a corner of Damascus’s Jewish cemetery.

In his later years, Vital relocated to Damascus, where he lived until his death in 1620. His burial site has long been revered as a Jewish holy site, although today almost no Jews remain in Syria ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an Islamis organisation that grew out of al-Qaeda’s Syria branch, captured power in Damascus in December. HTS leader Abu Mohammad al Golani, now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa ...

Jewish leaders around the world expressed outrage this weekend after the tomb of Rabbi Chaim Vital, a major figure in Jewish history and mysticism, was desecrated in Damascus, Syria. The Alliance ...

Damascus, SANA- The Syrian Civil Defense organized a special awareness workshop on safety and security measures Sunday at the Center for the Deaf and Mute in Damascus. Held in conjunction with the ...

Damascus, SANA- – Chairman and members of the Board of Directors of Damascus Chamber of Industry and its Countryside, Eng. Mohammad Ayman al-Mawlawi, discussed with a Jordanian business ...

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner traveled to Damascus on Sunday, marking a rare visit by Western officials to Syria’s capital to discuss the ...

Cory Mills of Florida visited the Damascus suburb of Jobar, the site of a historic synagogue that was heavily damaged and looted in the civil war, and the Christian neighborhood of Bab Touma ...

Night - Scattered showers with a 63% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 7 to 8 mph (11.3 to 12.9 kph). The overnight low will be 62 °F (16.7 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 78 °F (25. ...

Mostly cloudy with a high of 70 °F (21.1 °C) and a 47% chance of precipitation. Winds from W to WNW at 9 to 10 mph (14.5 to 16.1 kph). Night - Partly cloudy with a 32% chance of precipitation ...