presided over by the Patriarch of Antioch Béchara Boutros Raï, expressed “their satisfaction at the lifting of the financial and economic sanctions imposed on Syria” because it “will have ...

Charles Glass’s book on Syria provides a fascinating, if horrifying, explanation of the impact of imperial interests on the ...

While the High Medieval Period is famous for its warrior and martial cultures, there are some military leaders who really ...

St. Ephraim of Syria ("Homily 4," c ... the twelve is chosen to be their head in order to remove any occasion for division." St. Jerome, "Against Jovinian," c. 393 A.D. "Simon Peter, the son ...

The Metropolitan now took the scrolls to the Syrian Patriarch of Antioch, who thought they could ... at length in a section that describes the division of all mankind into two antithetical groups ...

The United States will scale down its military presence in Syria to one base from eight and U.S. policies will shift in the ...

The European Union has lifted a wide range of sanctions on Syria, but slapped new ones on people it says participated in ...

Syria's new president has reportedly said he is open to a Trump Tower rising in Damascus. "In Syria, which has seen so much misery and death, there is a new government that will hopefully succeed ...

OAKLAND — Just when it seemed like a judge would jail ex-Antioch Officer Devon Wenger, his lawyer in a pending civil rights abuse case bailed him out of a jam. The lawyer, Michael Schwartz ...

The meeting came days after President Trump announced he would end sanctions against Syria and met with the country’s president, a former jihadist. By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Beirut ...

Instability has plagued Syria in the past two weeks after fighting broke out in two of Damascus’s suburbs and a southern governorate, drawing in government forces and non-state armed factions.