In the 12th century, the Andalusian poet and traveler Ibn Jubayr described the agricultural lands around Damascus as “the ...

Recent excavations in Jerusalem’s Musrara neighborhood revealed four Armenian inscriptions dating from the sixth to seventh centuries CE, providing what scholar Michael E. Stone calls “completely new ...

The Iqlim Fahl was one of the many districts that constituted the extensive Mamlakat Dimashq in Bilad Al Sham during the Mamluk period (1250/1263 – 1517 CE).The great size of this Mamlakah (“kingdom”) ...

Andalusian philosopher is known for a number of key ideas adopted by later Sufis, including the unity of being, the concept ...

Sauna-bathing is taking off as a hot new trend in the UK. Sauna sites have more than tripled in the last two years as young ...

Pope Francis is in his fourth week recovering at a hospital in Rome from pneumonia in both his lungs. He will have to miss an important anniversary, the 12th anniversary that he was elected pope. (AP ...

A series of violent clashes in Syria points to both the lingering Russian and Iranian presence in the country, as well as the ...

the deal signaled a step toward stabilizing Syria and consolidating control of the country under a single central authority in Damascus. Malak Ibrahim, a Kurdish man who was displaced to Qamishli ...

A small, historic office building on 12th Avenue S.W. called Lacey Court ... a 24-hour daycare in a building that resembles the mid-century modern architecture of Lacey Court building remains ...

CENTURY, Fla. -- The town of Century has long been on the radar of a legislative audit committee for the handling of its finances. Florida's Joint Legislative Auditing Committee (JLAC) first ...

The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem on Tuesday issued a statement calling on the international community to urgently focus on the protection of all Christians in Syria. The full text of the ...

Syrian families who fled the clashes in Syria hold their luggages as they cross a river marking the border between Syria and northern Lebanon near the village of Heker al-Daher in Akkar province ...