Inside Syria's ancient capital, a lone Jewish guardian watches over abandoned properties while Islamist rulers patrol the ...

I n the Jobar suburb of Damascus, the ancient Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, one of the world's oldest, stands partially in ruins after years of civil war. Recently, some of Syria's small Jewish ...

Scholars also worry about the ruins of Roman-era synagogues in Syria’s ancient cities, such as Apamea and Dura-Europos. Satellite imaging has shown that Dura-Europos was heavily looted while ...

Syria's cultural scene is in ruins following ... The brutal murder of the chief archaeologist of the ancient ruins of Palmyra in 2015 by IS terrorists was a "turning point" for Bopp-Grüter.

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight. Yet the days when awestruck tourists would clamber through the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s ...

ISLAMIC STATE (Isis) militants captured the central Syrian city of Tadmur yesterday, overrunning the ancient ruins of Palmyra to the south. Syrian troops were forced to withdraw from the city in the ...

Assad's regime, Russia lost a key ally in the Middle East -but it still hopes to keeps its military bases in Syria.

In the 13 years of the bloody civil war in Syria, tens of thousands of people ... Residents navigating daily life amid the ruins in Aleppo - Can Erok for euronews Omar lived in Lebanon for five ...

We drove the backbone of Syria, north from Damascus through Homs and Hama to Aleppo, and then south west, through the towns and villages of southern Idlib.

STORY: The al-Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus is a testament to more than a decade of destruction wrought by Syria's civil war ... are not coming to us as they should. The ruins and ...

Imagine renting a car in Tel Aviv and embarking on a scenic road trip through Syria to Iraq. (photo credit: REUTERS) On both sides of the border, amid breathtaking landscapes and ancient ruins ...

TASS /. The Crimean authorities and the Syrian Ministry of Culture have agreed that world-famous Crimean renovators will engage in the restoration of the monuments of Palmyra, an ancient city ...