Researchers have also found a fine-toothed wooden comb, pieces of pottery, wooden tent pegs, beads and even a marble make-up palette as they look to shed light into life on the Roman frontier two ...

A Roman soldier stationed at Hadrian’s Wall had feet so big that he would have had trouble finding shoes that fit in today’s ...

Syrian rebels have driven government forces from Hama, a major city that the country’s regime had held over more than a decade of civil war, further weakening President Bashar al-Assad’s grip ...

BEIRUT — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria, including one on government forces that an opposition war monitor described as the first on the ...

and Guardian television critic Julia Raeside deliberate the effects of The Archers' storyline on listeners. Vanessa Altin has reported widely on the Syrian crisis for the UK tabloids. She has now ...

By Carlotta Gall The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for two bomb explosions in Syria, the first time the extremist group has directly targeted the new government since it took over in ...

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the attack on government forces killed one civilian and wounded three soldiers, describing it as the first such attack to be claimed ...