BEIRUT — Syria on Saturday detained a prominent Damascus-based Palestinian official whose group was close to the government of ousted president Bashar Assad. Talal Naji, 79, the leader of the ...

The Jewish community in Syria has shrunk to just a handful of people nowadays — Bakr ALKASEM A group of Syrian-American Jews prayed in a synagogue in Damascus on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported, ...

The Israel Defense Forces said in a post on Telegram on Friday that its fighter jets hit an area close to the People’s Palace, which is perched on a hill overlooking Damascus. There were no ...

Syria strongly condemned foreign intervention in the country following a rare Israeli strike near Damascus on Wednesday amid deadly sectarian violence. Syria said the Israeli strike killed at ...

Authorities in Syria have assured a thorough investigation into clashes that are reported to have killed 13 people in a town near the capital, Damascus, largely populated by the country’s Druze ...

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 Arizal, Rabbi Isaac Luria.

The trip comes after local community leader Bakhour Chamntoub said unknown assailants broke into and desecrated the tomb of a 17th-century rabbi in Damascus last week. Visiting Rabbi Henry Hamra ...

A partly burnt building after clashes in Sahnaya near Damascus — OMAR HAJ KADOUR Israel's military said Friday it launched air strikes near the presidential palace in Damascus after the country's ...

The dawn strike came hours after senior Druze clerics and armed factions reaffirmed their loyalty to Damascus and rejected any call for secession. They also urged the authorities to appoint local ...

Jaramana (Syria) (AFP) – In her home in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, Riham Waqqaf spent the night trying to distract her children from the sound of sectarian clashes that have terrified ...