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Researchers claim to have a method of using AI to date the Dead Sea Scrolls — this could have implications for the way we ...

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is ...

She's not a wild-eyed fanatic screaming from a soapbox; she's a well-spoken, educated woman who happens to believe that ...

Israel threatened to escalate attacks on Syrian government forces unless they withdraw from the southern province of Sweida, ...

Druse militiamen have been fighting with Bedouins in the Sweida Province, and Syrian government forces and the Israeli ...

Clashes between Bedouin tribes, government forces and members of a minority sect in Syria have left dozens dead and once ...

Israel’s army said Monday it has struck military tanks in southern Syria, where government forces and Bedouin tribes clashed ...

The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to ...

The Syrian Catholic archbishop of Homs in Syria, Jacques Mourad, has issued an urgent appeal for the future of the Christian ...

The June 22 attack on the Mar Elias Church in Damascus underscores the threat of extremism in Syria even after the fall of Assad. The new government must demonstrate control and protect minorities.