Rebels entered Maloula, the Christian town  and kept away from churches Mother Pelagia  Sayah, the Head of the Saint Mar Takla monastery in Maloula, the last inhabitant Aramaic town in the world near Damascus in Syria, denied any attack on churches and monasteries in...

The cost of keeping warships in the Mediterranean will rise as the Obama administration and Congress deliberate on whether to launch a punitive attack on Syria, the Navy’s top officer said Thursday. Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, said he might need to...

 Ali Habib is well known in Syrian society mostly because he served as the chief of staff between 2004 and 2009 (known to young draftees and hence families).    Life   General Ali Habib was born in 1939 in Safita, Tartous. He graduated...

The United States and allies are preparing for a possibly imminent series of limited military strikes against Syria, the first direct U.S. intervention in the two-year civil war, in retaliation for President Bashar al-Assad’s suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. If you...