Daniel Neep’s excellent account corrects the traditional narrative to show a nation surviving and resisting the powers that ...

Beirut is seeking to build a relationship on equal footing with the new authorities in Damascus, but progress has remained ...

Mahmoud Hallak nodded slowly as he was asked about unrest over the last year in places like Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, “I know what they are feeling,” he said. “They want justice. I can ...

A Jewish heritage foundation has set out to help restore private property appropriated after Syrian Jews left the country.

BEIRUT — Henry Hamra vividly recalls the day he was allowed to leave Syria. His uncle, the Jewish community’s rabbi, was called in for a meeting with Syria’s president at the time, Hafez al-Assad. “He ...

Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor on Wednesday approved the registration of a Jewish organization for the first time in the country’s history. Hind Kabawat, the first woman appointed to ...

Reports of chemical-weapons attacks have hovered like a cloud over the bloody conflict in Syria for at least half a year, with both the Syrian opposition and the embattled regime of Syrian President ...

GENEVA/NEW YORK/AMMAN, 13 December 2013- The decline in education for Syrian children has been the sharpest and most rapid in the history of the region, according to a new paper published today.