From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers ...

All the while, he remained theoretically loyal to Nur al-Din, his patron in Syria, but that eventually fell apart. Saladin rejected all advances from Nur al-Din to plan a coordinated attack upon the ...

Cairo called on the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ... for you crusaders is something you can only wish for." Afterwards, he says: "And we will conquer Rome, by the will ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

Britain-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said "532 Alawite civilians were killed in the coastal regions of Syria and the Latakia mountains by security forces and allied ...

Still, Syrian Christians are worried, wondering if the new government will target them next. The revenge killings mark the ...

telling the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that “without Christians, there can be no future for Syria” and urged the faithful to remain steadfast despite the trying ...

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria fear the Middle Eastern nation has traded one oppressor for another since ...

Paradox has announced a new core expansion coming to its strategy game Crusader Kings 3 this April, inspired by Genghis Khan and the Mongols. Khans of the Steppe will arrive on 28th April as one ...

Syria's top Christian leaders have condemned the killing and wounding of hundreds of Alawites, many of them civilians, by security forces and gunmen linked to the country's new Islamist rulers. The ...