As Pope Francis appoints Cardinal George Koovakad as Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, the Indian-born ...

The second batch of Israeli hostages set to be released by Hamas this weekend are four female soldiers. That's according to ...

(AP) — Hamas announced Friday the names of the next four hostages it plans to release this weekend as part of a fragile ceasefire deal with Israel that has paused the war in Gaza. There was no ...

Hamas has announced the names of the next four hostages it will release this weekend as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested Friday that his county’s military might not withdraw all of its forces ...

When Syrian grandfather Omar Kafozi returned to his house near Damascus after Bashar al-Assad's ouster, he saw unfathomable ...

But since he and his fellow jihadists advanced from Idlib, their northern enclave, and toppled the Assads on December 8th, ...

At least three women were killed, and five children suffered severe fractures, bruises, and fainting during a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday afternoon.

Four people were killed and several others injured in an apparent crowd crush outside Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

Its leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is now the de facto leader of Syria, has emphasized religious harmony since taking power in Damascus. Sharaa was in the past critical of ISIS, describing its self ...

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrived in Damascus Saturday (January 11, 2025) in the first such visit since before civil war broke out in Syria in 2011. His visit comes as the neighbouring ...