Palmyra is one of the most famous sites in Syria for its extraordinary heritage and archaeological remains. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980, the city saw much of its heritage destroyed ...

The changes were made Thursday in the wake of an executive order Trump signed calling for the federal government to define ...

At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982 ... he became a pharmacist and returned to studying history. When Bashar al-Assad's 2011 ...

Without outside help or with the wrong kind of foreign aid, Syria will be more likely to slide back into civil war or come under the thumb of another despot. Assad was toppled by a loose coalition of ...

The Future of Syria and Turkey’s Political Influence The history outlined above reveals how Turkey's changing policies and positions in Syria – driven by its concerns about non-state threats and the ...

For Mohammad and his family, sharing Syria’s culture and history — especially with the Dutch — is ... though she acknowledges some landmarks have faded from her memory, and while she has found a ...