An ancient town in Syria is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is ...

Tayyip Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkey's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed ...

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...

Syria’s new rulers have kicked off a long-awaited national dialogue conference as an “exceptional and rare historical ...

The country’s new leaders had billed a two-day “national dialogue” in Damascus as the start of a process to build an ...

Even as tensions between Israel and Syria ramped up in recent days, a small group of Syrian Jews recently celebrated a ...

Their routines included standard comedy fare — religion, sex and the pressure to get married — but the biggest punchline of ...

Nearly three months after Bashar al-Assad fled, much of Syria is suspended between relief at the dictatorship’s demise and ...

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 top economies gather in South Africa on Wednesday and Thursday, for a ...

The long-awaited conference was billed as a "rare historical opportunity" to rebuild the country after 14 years of civil war.

Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a ...