In 1980, a routine maintenance mishap led to a catastrophic missile explosion in Damascus, Arkansas, nearly triggering a ...

Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a ...

The Church celebrates the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul on Jan. 25, the only one of a kind in the liturgy. There are other “turnabouts” that have left an indelible mark in the history of ...

Michael Lavalette looks at the life and works of the Palestinian writer and activist Ghassan Kanafani and reviews two recent collections of his political writings Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian ...

The Kurdish forces guarding ISIS fighters at a jail in northern Syria say they are opposed to handing the facility to the new ...

Polish paramedics treated 16 injured coal miners on Wednesday after methane ignited in a mine in southern Poland, the ...

Assad, the ophthalmologist-turned-dictator who ruled Syria with an iron fist. This video examines his early promises of reform, the brutal suppression of dissent during the Damascus Spring, and his ...

After the Palestinian group Hamas carried out the worst attack in Israeli history on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a devastating military campaign in the ...

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has met with Syria's leader during an unannounced visit to Damascus.

The article explores why Syria, despite its early independence, was unable to establish a democracy, instead evolving into a ...

Syria has faced such transitions before. Unless secular, pro-democracy advocates learn from the past, we risk falling into ...

New administration working to establish new country 'based on institutions, not individuals' Asaad Al-Shaibani says - Anadolu Ajansı ...