Azm, an archaeologist and former professor at Damascus University, left Syria with his family in 2006. He recently returned ...

Ethiopian pilgrims pray during a Mass service for Ethiopian Christmas at the Bole Medhane Alem cathedral in Addis Ababa, ...

Tim King, a 53-year-old Illinois man, tells PEOPLE the gift ... his parents with a home renovation project when he found a Christmas present with his name on it — from decades ago — behind ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) said. Five children suffered ...

ISTANBUL, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Turkey is planning to start flights to Syria's Damascus in the coming days, Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said on Thursday. "We are planning a flight ...

Damascus (AFP) – Syrians returned on Wednesday to the national museum in Damascus, reopened for the first time since Islamist-led forces seized the capital and ousted president Bashar al-Assad ...

Orthodox Christians marked a sombre Christmas on Tuesday in the war-torn Gaza Strip, with worshippers saying there would be no gifts for children and no joy during this year's holiday.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I was growing up, my family, like so many others in the community I lived in, ...

Christmas (25th December) is a Christian holy day that marks the birth of Jesus, the son of God. Christmas is Katie and Hannah's favourite time of the year. They countdown to Christmas using an ...

Tourists joined Ethiopians for Orthodox Christmas celebrations at one of the world's oldest churches on Tuesday.