Yarmouk Camp ‘held symbolic importance as the capital of the diaspora. The graves were systematically erased to eliminate ...

YARMUK, Syria (AFP) – School lessons ended in Syria’s biggest Palestinian refugee camp on October 18, 2012, judging by the date still chalked up on the board more than a decade later. “I am playing ...

How the destruction of architectural treasures became a weapon in Syria’s ongoing civil war. A second-century Roman theater in Bosra, Syria, once the capital of the Roman province of Arabia, 2009 By ...

Before civil war erupted in his homeland, Syrian architect Mohamad Hafez, who lives and works in New Haven, coped with his homesickness by building models of old Damascus. Now he pores over images of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Fears mounted over the fate of one of the Mideast’s most prominent archaeological sites after Islamic State militants overran the historic Syrian town of Palmyra, seizing control ...

The bodies of Israeli soldiers killed in the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub, which took place in Lebanon’s Bekaa region near ...