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. In the Faranj synagogue, Syrian-American Rabbi Yusuf Hamra led the prayer for the first time...

Seven civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed Thursday when leftover munitions exploded inside a house in northwest Syria, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the deadly blast a day after another organization said two-thirds of Syrians risked...

A human rights organization called on the Syrian and Lebanese governments to take urgent measures to end the suffering of Syrian detainees in Lebanon, where the number of detainees is estimated at about 2,000 people, including about 190 detainees for their participation in the Syrian...

Jewish Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, who was forcibly displaced from Syria in 1992, has returned to Damascus after 33 years. Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Jews, who were expelled from the country in 1992, have begun returning. Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, along with a group of Jews, visited...