A contractor in northern Syria received the surprise of a lifetime when he discovered an underground Byzantine tomb complex, estimated to be over 1,500 years old, while excavating the remains of a ...

MARAAT AL-NUMAN, Syria (AP) — A contractor digging into the earth where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared away in northern Syria stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an ...

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the National Museum of Damascus after it reopened, a month after the ousting of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, January 9, 2025. REUTERS/Yamam Al ...

The battle for northwest Syria began much like the country’s civil war, with anti-government demonstrations in the city of Aleppo in the summer and fall of 2011 leading to heavy-handed, violent ...

DAMASCUS – Thieves broke into Syria 's national museum and stole several ancient statues dating back to the Roman era, officials said Tuesday. The National Museum of Damascus was briefly closed after ...

The United Kingdom says it joined France in overnight air strikes on an underground facility near Palmyra in Syria that is ...

Thieves made off with several ancient gold ingots from Syria's national museum in Damascus, a security source and another close to the institution's management said Tuesday. The museum was spared ...

Fighting between Syrian rebels and government forces in Aleppo, threatened to destroy the Souk al-Madina, the medieval market declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Thieves broke into the national museum in the Syrian capital and stole several ancient statues dating back to the Roman era, officials said Tuesday. The National Museum of ...