Inside Syria's ancient capital, a lone Jewish guardian watches over abandoned properties while Islamist rulers patrol the ...
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 ...
Samir al-Baghdad is committed to reconstructing his family's destroyed home in Qaboun, a neighborhood near Damascus, Syria, despite the severe economic challenges. The civil war and ensuing corruption ...
Today, the synagogue lies in ruins. However, the leader of Syria's Jewish community has received promises from expatriate Jews to fund its reconstruction. Before the war, the synagogue accommodated ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (AFP) - The Syrian defence ministry said 36 people were killed and more than 50 wounded Wednesday in Israeli air strikes on the oasis city of Palmyra, renowned for its ancient ruins.
There were 50,000 Jews in Syria at the beginning of the 20th century – an ancient and historic community dating to antiquity. The Jews of Syria were divided by city origin, with two old ...