This city is also known for its walls, gates and great castles, and when talking about ancient Aleppo, we must talk about its gates, the most prominent of which are: Bab al-Hadid, Bab Antakya ...

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

Flourishing during the 3 rd millennium BC, this once-powerful city-state rivaled even the might of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Its rediscovery in the 1960s revolutionized our understanding of the ancient ...

HOMS governor Talal Barazi conceded last night that Syrian government forces had withdrawn from the ancient city of Palmyra while continuing ... While conflict mounted in Palmyra, thousands more ...

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

With the crucial battle of Aleppo almost won by Syrian government forces ... Further south, Isis terrorists threatened to surround the city of Tadmur, where the ancient Roman ruins of Palmyra are ...

The document, titled "Persecutions Against the Jews of Damascus ," was published in Paris in the same year and sold for 1 ...

In the West, he is most often depicted as the antagonist – if a noble and revered one – to the crusader king, Richard the ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

Though people perceive Syria as an ancient place ... The family moved from Aleppo to Latakia, another Syrian city, for a couple of years, hoping it would be safer. “But it’s the same: the ...

Directed by Ruben Lagattolla and Filippo Biagianti, Young Syrian Lenses follows a group of young media-activists in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city ... to the house of an ancient Syrian singer.