Visiting the site of what had been Syria's oldest synagogue of all, in the Jobar area of Damascus, Hamra found it in ruins ...

DAMASCUS, March 4 (Xinhua ... Al-Qaboun, once a bustling district of the Syrian capital, now stands in ruins after years of war. Though the guns have largely fallen silent, the scars of ...

It seemed an ideal time. The Jewish Quarter of Damascus is located in the old city. There were 50,000 Jews in Syria at the ...

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the ...

PALMYRA, Syria — Experts are returning to Syria ... Once-thriving landmarks like the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval Crusader castle of Crac des Chevaliers remain scarred by years ...