Tour companies are weighing-up resuming trips to Syria, as Turkish Airlines will become the latest major international ...

Maaloula, a small Christian-dominated town northeast of Damascus, remains in a fragile state after the collapse of the Bashar ...

As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international envoy says Christians and ...

the Crusader Fort of Krak des Chevaliers and Maaloula on our trips. "However, if Syria continues to move forward with a stable trajectory and if/when international travel advisories, such as those ...

Syria's Christian village of Maaloula, located north of Damascus, is a sacred place that has previously been dubbed 'the breath of God'. Its arresting landscape is unlike any other, surrounded by the ...

Other incidents that have continued to spark concerns include reports of Christian families in Maaloula in western Syria being pushed out of their homes and land. A separate incident last month ...

When I visited Maaloula in southwest Syria in 2016, the Jabhat Al-Nusra (the predecessor of the Hayat Tahrir Ash Sham jihadis, who have toppled Bashar al-Assad) had systematically destroyed and ...

Syrians begin to learn to live without Assad. Damascus and Sednaya, Syria—On New Year’s Day, Diyya ad-Din Dereh took his family on an outing. He, his wife, and their four young girls squeezed ...

Tensions between Christians and Islamists have also been reported in Maaloula, a historic town where the language of Jesus, Aramaic, is spoken, located some 35 miles northeast of Damascus. Residents ...

The rapid fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December has thrown up numerous challenges for both Syrian society and the interim government, appointed by Ahmed al Shara, the leader of the Islamist ...

Maaloula, Syria: A town steeped in history and faith, Maaloula remains one of the few places where the ancient Aramaic language, once spoken by Jesus, is still heard. However, this heritage is now ...