(JTA) — Even as tensions between Israel and Syria ramped up in recent days, a small group of Syrian Jews recently celebrated ...

An ancient town in Syria is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is ...

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...

Tayyip Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkey's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed ...

Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralised, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there to counter Turkey's growing influence in the country, four sources ...

Jordan also reproached the strikes.Iran called the latest attacks on Syria “a blatant violation of the UN Charter, ...

Their routines included standard comedy fare — religion, sex and the pressure to get married — but the biggest punchline of ...

The Israeli military conducts air raids on what it described as military bases and command centres. The Israeli military has conducted air raids targeting what it described as military bases and ...

Israel carried out airstrikes late Tuesday on several locations in the Damascus countryside and Daraa province in southern ...

Some 600 people from different parts of Syria were invited to the gathering in Damascus, hosted by the new authorities led by the Islamist former insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.

Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a ...