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Syrians prepare for 2025 with caution, hope after Assad's fall
Damascus residents on Tuesday (December 31) were preparing to welcome the New Year for the first time since the ousting of ...
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Top 10 Biblical Archaeology Stories of 2024
From a Mediterranean shipwreck to a mosaic on display in Washington DC, these are the discoveries that made scholars of the ...
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Ancient Syrian Synagogue Opens to Tiny Jewish Community
In the Jobar suburb of Damascus, the ancient Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, one of the world's oldest, stands partially in ruins ...
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Remains of 3,000-year-old dead city discovered on South China’s Silk Route
Chinese archaeologists uncovered the oldest city ever found from the Shang Dynasty, over 3,000 years old, at the entrance of the Silk Road.
Doctor gives tour of underground tunnel used by medics to save wounded during Syrian war
During the devastating war between the former President Bashar Assad’s forces and the Syrian opposition groups, Douma’s ...
Syria’s dwindling Jewish community can visit one of the world’s oldest synagogues again
Syria's civil war left one of the world's oldest synagogues partially destroyed. Now Syria's handful of remaining Jews are ...
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In Syria, small Jewish community can again visit synagogue built 720 years before Christ
In a Damascus suburb, remaining Jews can again visit one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people throughout the region ...
Chanukah Festival to be held Sunday in OKC
Members of the Jewish community will gather in Oklahoma City Sunday for the annual OKC Community Chanukah Festival. The festival, held at Scissortail Park, is in its 11th year. According to Rabbi ...
Iraqi security chief meets Syria's rebel leader in Damascus
Iraqi intelligence chief Hamid al-Shatri met on Thursday in Damascus with Ahmad al-Sharaa, leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or ...