Khaldoun Al Raba, 32, has fond memories of his days guiding tourists around the ancient ruins of Palmyra, deep in the Syrian ...

Scholars also worry about the ruins of Roman-era synagogues in Syria’s ancient cities, such as Apamea and Dura-Europos. Satellite imaging has shown that Dura-Europos was heavily looted while ...

and the ruins themselves. Al Khazna, or the Treasury, is just one of the many facades carved into the mountains of ancient Petra. The majority of archaeological remains in Petra are tombs ...

Syria's cultural scene is in ruins following ... The brutal murder of the chief archaeologist of the ancient ruins of Palmyra in 2015 by IS terrorists was a "turning point" for Bopp-Grüter.

an ancient site that has fallen into ruins. Hamra described such a restoration as "an act of great kindness" that could symbolize unity and mutual respect among Syria's communities. "It would ...

Bathed in the glow of the winter sun, the colonnades of ancient Palmyra are perhaps Syria’s most precious sight. Yet the days when awestruck tourists would clamber through the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s ...

Assad's regime, Russia lost a key ally in the Middle East -but it still hopes to keeps its military bases in Syria.