Long-suppressed by the Assad regime, the Kurdish language underwent an educational and cultural revival in Syria over the ...

The Cypriot village of Kormakitis is the last bastion of a language once spoken by tens of thousands of people. Maronites are ...

Last December, after more than a decade of fighting, forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad ousted him from power. Some ...

This week’s announcement by President Donald Trump that the U.S. would fully lift its sanctions on Syria triggered hope in ...

IBRAHIM HAMEJU: (Non-English language spoken). FENG: Engineer Ibrahim Hameju (ph) shows us around one of Syria's few remaining power distribution sites. This transformer is older than me.

Now residents and clergymen hope that Syria’s new leaders will protect them and their efforts to pass down Christian tradition and the Aramaic language. Many people who had fled the town have ...

"We want to want to be sure that he is not a terrorist anymore," senior Israeli official told Newsweek of Syria's Ahmad al-Sharaa.

Maaloula is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria’s two oldest active monasteries.