“You might be tempted to think it's an image of Julius Caesar. It is actually a sculpture of Augustus, Rome's first emperor. It's a sculpture that lives at the Vatican Museum, made of marble and ...

SEOUL: A fire broke out on Tuesday (Jun 10) in a building housing some of South Korea's national treasures, neighbouring the historic Buddhist Jogye temple in Seoul, but it was later extinguished ...

Before he met with the monks, he was given a hero's welcome, during which he visited the Beijing Ducks basketball club's gym and was surrounded by children after finishing his workout. According ...

Faith and chaos collided in a bizarre episode outside the revered Thakur Banke Bihari Temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Vrindavan after a monkey snatched a devotee’s purse containing jewellery worth over Rs ...

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the Alawite community which the deposed president hails from has been the target of many attacks, including sectarian massacres which killed more than 1,700 ...

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Near Damascus, pro-government forces clashed with local militias from the Druze minority community, after an audio clip circulated on social media of a man criticizing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

The clashes near Damascus involved the Druze minority. The treatment of minorities remains "one of the greatest internal challenges", Ziadeh said, as "building trust between different components ...

Tice, who worked as a freelance journalist, disappeared near Damascus in August 2012. According to the BBC, seven weeks after his disappearance, a video was posted online showing Tice blindfolded ...

t.co/xNPR701Uek The Syrian government has bombarded the Damascus suburb of Daraya with "barrel bombs" for the last several days, according to a series of videos posted to YouTube by activists in ...

The road’s reopening will come as a relief to commuters whose usual 10-to-15-mile trips from the eastern part of the county toward Damascus have become 30-mile detours along winding country roads.