Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based Syrian Jewish religious figures last week was their first time back since then.

The shortlist for the Literature category includes three works: The Sphinx by Ahmed Mourad (Egypt); Travels of the City of ...

"For children, they can learn to ... In one, Rabbi Hamra reverently held a prayer book he himself had copied out long ago, and in accordance with Syrian law at the time, had taken to the ...

I’ve told Hasan’s story in Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece, the book I wrote ... for every Syrian and a better, democratic future for our children.” ...

By 258 AD, Zenobia had married Lucius Septimius Odaenathus, known as Odenathus, the Roman governor of Syria. She had two children with ... in his book 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ...

Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has largely held ...

By Emmett Lindner Syria’s interim president ... Lives lived: Uri Shulevitz, a children’s book author who turned childhood memories of fleeing the Nazis in Poland into magical stories, died ...

Syria’s interim president ... Lives lived: Uri Shulevitz, a children’s book author who turned childhood memories of fleeing the Nazis in Poland into magical stories, died at 89.