While still a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient ...

However, Aleppo-based activist Mohammed al-Khatib, quoted by AP news agency, said a tank shell had "totally destroyed" the 45m (148ft) minaret. The mosque has suffered extensive damage during months ...

Local and international experts are filling a government void, and have begun the process of mapping and assessing sites ...

SYRIAN troops advanced into Aleppo’s central old city yesterday in the final offensive against 5,000 Western-backed insurgents. They liberated the Farafira district on the north side of the medieval ...

ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — Researchers have tested ancient DNA from corn found at archaeological sites in Arkansas, shedding new light on the dispersal of one of the world's ... We Might Feel Love in Our ...

But we cannot plant the land with mines laid across it.” His field is part of a chain of minefields laid for hundreds of kilometres along the front lines that ran across northern Syria separating the ...

At first glance, it's a happy image: hundreds of smiling faces torn from newspapers and pasted into a frame. But these are ...

Though Tehran scrambled to help the Assads face off the rebel assault, soldiers were turning on their own commanders ...

Before the internet and telephone, societies relied on homing pigeons to relay important news across long distances. Here are ...