For centuries, the hakawati, an Arabic word meaning "storyteller," played an important role in Syria. In cafes, these men would sit in raised chairs and narrate wild tales to the crowds that gathered ...

It was just another bombing in a complicated corner of the Middle East, but this one was important — the Associated Press ...

Researchers said their findings suggest husbands relocated to the wife's household upon marriage – suggesting a female ...

After 14 years of civil war in Syria, and a devastating earthquake, mountains of rubble clog the streets of Aleppo, hindering ...

Archaeologists uncovered multi-storey dwellings, granaries and a ceremonial road tied to the worship of the cobra goddess ...

A long-lost city dating back some 2,400 years has been discovered next to a temple dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cobra ...

Video shared on social media shows firefighting helicopters dropping water on fires burning in Turkey's Izmir province on ...

Euro zone inflation edged up last month to the European Central Bank's 2% target, confirming that the era of runaway prices ...

Excavations in Egypt's Nile Delta have revealed ancient Egyptian multistory "tower" houses, a ceremonial building dedicated ...

European researchers have released the findings of a study into a 700-year-old gold ring discovered in an abandoned castle in Slovakia.

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...