al-Sulamī was also a grammarian who taught in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. His Kitāb al-Jihād (Book of Jihād) published in ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once bustling with pilgrims, the Sayyida Zeinab shrine area is now subdued, ...

They targeted a church; tomorrow, it could be a mosque or a Druze or Kurdish neighborhood A Damascus resident told The Media Line, “They targeted a church; tomorrow, it could be a mosque or a Druze or ...

A new study challenges long-standing beliefs about Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s destroyed statues, suggesting they were ritually deactivated.

DAMASCUS - Syrian Christians were struggling on Monday to understand why their community was targeted in a suicide attack and whether they can rely on the Islamist-led government's assurances of ...

The death toll from a suicide bombing at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighbourhood of Damascus on Sunday has risen to 25, Syria's state news agency SANA reported on Monday citing the ...

Suicide bomber kills at least 22 in packed Syrian church near Damascus Interior ministry says preliminary investigation points to Islamic State ...

The death toll from the attack on Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in the Douailah district of Damascus has risen to 22, with 59 others injured, according to Syria’s Ministry of Health.

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds.

Israel and the U.S. are bombing military and government sites in Iran, destroying or jeopardizing its cultural and artistic heritage.