Family and friends identified the American as Hosam Sarayas. The U.S. State Department confirmed on Tuesday that a U.S. citizen was killed in Syria after disturbing videos surfaced showing him among a ...

The religious leader, Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, disappeared 12 years ago when his convoy was attacked on a desolate road outside of Aleppo. Mor Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, a Syriac Orthodox Archbishop ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian-American man of the Druze religious minority was killed in southern Syria when he got caught up in sectarian clashes there last week while visiting family members, relatives and ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — U.S. Congressman Abraham Hamadeh made a brief visit to Syria where he discussed with the country’s interim president the return of the body of an American aid worker who was ...

What is happening in Syria? When the civil war ended in Syria in 2024, the country entered into a period of transition and recovery. Nearly a million former refugees have returned to Syria, and 1.9 ...

(RNS) — As Jews around the world were preparing for the new Hebrew year last week, Rabbi Asher Lopatin stood in Damascus looking at a different type of new beginning. While he visited Syria for the ...

(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 ...