Family and friends identified the American as Hosam Sarayas. The U.S. State Department confirmed on Tuesday that a U.S. citizen was killed in Syria after disturbing videos surfaced showing him among a ...

BEIRUT — A 35-year-old Syrian American man was among hundreds of people killed during sectarian violence in southern Syria last week — executed by gunmen after being seized, along with other relatives ...

The religious leader, Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, disappeared 12 years ago when his convoy was attacked on a desolate road outside of Aleppo. Mor Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, a Syriac Orthodox Archbishop ...

Syrian jihadists reportedly executed a 35-year-old Syrian American – a member of the religious minority Druze community – last week as government-backed forces viciously attacked members of the Druze ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian-American man of the Druze religious minority was killed in southern Syria when he got caught up in sectarian clashes there last week while visiting family members, relatives and ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — U.S. Congressman Abraham Hamadeh made a brief visit to Syria where he discussed with the country’s interim president the return of the body of an American aid worker who was ...

What is happening in Syria? When the civil war ended in Syria in 2024, the country entered into a period of transition and recovery. Nearly a million former refugees have returned to Syria, and 1.9 ...

(RNS) — As Jews around the world were preparing for the new Hebrew year last week, Rabbi Asher Lopatin stood in Damascus looking at a different type of new beginning. While he visited Syria for the ...