Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, left, and his son Henry take pictures as they ...

As Syrians begin to stitch their country back together after the fall of the Assad regime and 14 years of civil war, one city serves as a template for what Syria’s new Islamist rulers would like the ...

On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of people packed into a courtyard in the Old City, dancing and singing during a joyful evening of music – a concert held with the approval of Syria’s ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship.

After the Syrian government launched a chemical attack on the rebel-held area of Douma, Syria, in 2018, some of the survivors were forced to falsely testify it never happened. Now, some of those ...

Hamra said Jews abroad want to be allowed to help restore their synagogues, their family homes and their schools in the capital's old city. Someday, he says, Syria's Jewish community could be like ...

Syrian-American Rabbi Youssef Hamra leads the first Jewish group prayer in Syria since the 1990s, in the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Old City. — LOUAI BESHARA Syria's tiny ...