1515: Francis I succeeds Louis XII as king of France. 1660: The first entry in Samuel Pepys’ diary. On the same day, Thomas ...

"The leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, meets a delegation from the Christian community in Damascus," ...

Syria’s new leadership has repeatedly tried to reassure minorities that they will not be harmed, although some incidents have ...

Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met senior Christian clerics on Tuesday, amid calls for the head of Hayat Tahrir ...

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met with high-level Christian clergymen on Tuesday, amid calls on the Islamist chief to guarantee minority rights after seizing power earlier this month.

Christians in Maaloula in western Syria have been living with an intensifying fear for their safety, exacerbated by a recent incident.

From a Mediterranean shipwreck to a mosaic on display in Washington DC, these are the discoveries that made scholars of the ...

Damascus and Aleppo, Syria – Until the fall of the al-Assad regime, the word “dollar” was forbidden in public. Instead, people used anything green – my favourite substitute was “molokhiyeh”, the green ...

The Karen ethnic group is the country's third largest. Their new year date is decided based on the lunar calendar and the end of the rice harvest, rather than with reference to the Roman system.

Iraq's situation does not support conditions for lasting security and stability to live in freedom, Cardinal Sako says ...

The primary rebel force that led the lightning offensive against the regime of President Bashar Assad is the Islamist Hayat ...

HAVANA TIMES – Here are the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Thursday, December 26, 2024.