Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades on Feb. 19, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship.

A newly liberated Syria brings back activists who long relied on nonviolent tactics in hopes of building a democracy.

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the ...

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry returned to a synagogue in the heart of Syria's ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old ...

A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad ...

The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a global non-proliferation agency, will meet ...

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It said Damascus had asked Russia to rebuild trust ... after the International Criminal Court at The Hague in May brought charges against Israeli leaders — along with Hamas militant leaders ...

DAMASCUS — Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al ...

(AP Photo/Leo Correa, File) DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A delegation of Russian officials arrived in Damascus on Tuesday for the first such visit to Syria since the fall of former President Bashar Assad.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Syrian civil defense workers, known as the White Helmets, collect human remains found in two separate ...