With Syria's corruption-ridden economy in shambles after the overthrow of Bashar Assad, the caretaker government’s priority ...

Cardinal Gugerotti’s six-day visit, from Jan. 24–29, marks the first time a Vatican envoy has traveled to Syria since the ...

Nearly a century ago, Danish archaeologists traveled to the site of the ancient city of Hama, a region that was occupied for close to 8,000 years. Hama, now in modern-day Syria, was first occupied ...

BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of ...

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the ...

Syria's rich history of peaceful coexistence is a natural blueprint for interfaith governance after the sham pluralism of the ...

It is time for Syrians to reject the failed ideologies of pan-Arabism and embrace their own rich legacy. By reconnecting with ...

Headless skeletons, feral bears and female fighters – a new British Museum show revolutionises our understanding of life in ...

Looking back over the history of Syria, Christians have passed through difficult periods Nassar observed. Whether it was during the seventh century with the arrival of Islam, or from Europeans during ...

Syria, a country in Southwest Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, was deeply affected by the Arab Spring protests that swept through many nations in the Middle East and North Africa in ...

Throughout time, Seleucid leaders assumed the eastern title of Great King, as had Alexander, and the Seleucids took over the Syrian Empire and reformed it. At least from the time of Antiochus III, ...

We have previously discussed the Crisis of the 3rd Century, that period of antiquity also known as the Anarchy of the 3rd ...