The Eagles of Antioch is a group of volunteers who stand watch over Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, protecting shrines, icons and churches from vandalism and attacks in post-Assad Syria.

The early Byzantine fortress Tuida was integral to the defense system, and this was the fourth coin of this kind retrieved from the ruins.

His Beatitude John X, the Damascus-based leader of the Antioch Christian Church, wrapped up his recent visit to the United States with a desperate appeal for American leadership to bring an end to ...

The faithful gathered for a more than symbolic rite at St. Elias Orthodox Church in Damascus — the Feast of All Antiochian Saints. During this June 22 service, a jihadi ...

In 1928, Charles Rufus Morey, chair of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology, proposed the exploration and excavation of the ancient and medieval site of Antioch, located in northern Syria ...

Social tensions in Antioch, regular and relatively peaceful host to Alawites and Sunnis, have risen since the eruption of the Syrian conflict.

The Seleucid Empire’s capital until 64 B.C., Antioch was subsequently incorporated into the Roman Empire by Pompey the Great and named the capital of the province of Syria.

DAMASCUS, SyriaDAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s state-run news agency says John Yazigi has been elected to head the Damascus-based Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. He replaces Patriarch Ignatius ...

ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE; Half of the City of Antioch, in Syria, Destroyed. Fifteen Hundred Persons Killed Awful Scenes Dismay of the Inhabitants History of Earthquakes.

Antioch's civic coins were particularly abundant along a known trade routebut were also used more widely among neighboring cities than was previously thought, Neumann found.