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A notorious desert refugee camp in Syria has closed after the last remaining families returned to their areas of origin, Syrian authorities said on Saturday. The Rukban camp in Syria's desert was ...

Here's how the Turkish city of Gaziantep became synonymous with baklava, the sweet pastry made of layers of phyllo dough, ...

The Rukban displacement camp, which opened and was cut off in the height of the war in 2014, housed thousands of people.

Syria’s Emergency Task Force said the Rukban camp had officially closed and is now empty, with all families and residents ...

The fatwa, issued by Syria’s Supreme Fatwa Council, urged citizens to make use of the judiciary and official channels to ...

When Jad Albasha arrived in Quebec in 2016 as a 21-year-old fleeing his war-torn home of Syria, he landed in a snow-covered ...

Documents reveal how Syria’s fallen government hid hundreds of abducted children during the country’s civil war.

Trump is using travel bans to keep some people out—and additional means to make sure others don’t want to even visit.

Abdelkader Harkassi Aidi, Tarek Rodriguez and Abdallah Rafael Hernandez Mancha set out from southern Spain in October, riding ...

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said the protesters were acting like members of ISIS and al-Qaeda.

By the time of his death from cancer in 1974, Husseini had passed the baton. Arafat was the future of the Palestinian ...