When a delegation of US Jews visited Syria at the invitation of the interim government in February, one of their stops was to a small shrine in a corner of Damascus’s Jewish cemetery.

Unknown individuals broke into the Jewish cemetery in Damascus on Wednesday night and desecrated the grave of Rabbi Chaim Vital, a leading kabbalist and leading student of Arizal, Rabbi Isaac Luria.

The Jewish community in Syria has shrunk to just a handful of people nowadays — Bakr ALKASEM A group of Syrian-American Jews prayed in a synagogue in Damascus on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported, ...

The trip comes after local community leader Bakhour Chamntoub said unknown assailants broke into and desecrated the tomb of a 17th-century rabbi in Damascus last week. Visiting Rabbi Henry Hamra ...

Authorities in Syria have assured a thorough investigation into clashes that are reported to have killed 13 people in a town near the capital, Damascus, largely populated by the country’s Druze ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — At least 10 people were killed on Tuesday after clashes broke out in a suburb of the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect and pro ...

Published April 29, 2025Updated April 30, 2025, 3:42 a.m. ET Deadly clashes fueled by sectarian tensions erupted on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing at least 12 people ...

Deadly clashes fueled by sectarian tensions erupted on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing at least nine people, Syrian officials and a war monitoring group said on Tuesday.

Jaramana (Syria) (AFP) – In her home in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, Riham Waqqaf spent the night trying to distract her children from the sound of sectarian clashes that have terrified ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Damascus leadership on Sunday censured the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic ...

Druze security forces stand guard in Jaramana in the suburb of Damascus on April 29, 2025, following overnight sectarian clashes between Druze fighters and security forces loyal to Syria's new ...