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Syria

The Dura Europos Synagogue wall paintings
Posted inArt

After years of war, world’s oldest synagogue paintings are revealed as intact in Damascus

by Grace Gilson September 22, 2025September 22, 2025

(JTA) — After studying the world’s oldest synagogue paintings for nearly a decade, Jill Joshowitz had accepted that she might never be able to stand before them as they remained […]

Broken fence in Druze town
Posted inIsrael

Residents mourn in Druze town where hundreds breached border with Syria

by Deborah Danan July 24, 2025July 25, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and other Israeli officials at the Syrian border on Dec. 8, 2024. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office)
Posted inNews

What the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria means for Israel

Ben Sales by Ben Sales December 8, 2024December 8, 2024
A view of collapsed building after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Hatay, Turkey, Feb. 6, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Ali Kemal Zerenli-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Israel sends aid to Turkey and Syria in wake of earthquake that has killed thousands

by David I. Klein and JTA February 6, 2023
An aerial view shows the city of Antakya, Turkey, Aug. 21, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Omar Haj Kadour-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

On the Turkish-Syrian border, a city’s last Jews watch the ending of an epoch

by David I. Klein and JTA October 19, 2022
(From left) Rabbi Jill Perlman leads a conversation with Hayvi Bouzo, Omar Al Busaidy, Fatema Al Harbi, Dan Feferman and Chama Mechtaly of the NGO Sharaka at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette on Nov. 8, 2021. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inNews

Arab and Israeli delegates tout Abraham Accords on Bay Area visit

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman November 9, 2021November 10, 2021
A worker clears shattered glass outside a shop damaged by a rocket attack the previous night in Erbil, the capital of the Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region. (Photo/JTA-Safin Hamed-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Biden’s first military action: Strike on Iranian-backed targets in Syria

by Ron Kampeas and JTA February 26, 2021
Syrian air defense batteries respond to Israeli airstrikes on military targets on the southern outskirts of Damascus early on Nov. 20, 2019. (Photo/JTA-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inNews

Israel strikes Iranian, Syrian targets on Golan Heights and near Damascus

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA November 18, 2020November 18, 2020
Syrian air defense batteries respond to Israeli airstrikes on military targets on the southern outskirts of Damascus early on Nov. 20, 2019. (Photo/JTA-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inIsrael

Airstrikes blamed on Israel hit Iranian targets in Syria, killing 14

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA May 5, 2020
Israeli soldiers with their artillery unit on high alert are seen near the Israel-Syria border on the Golan Heights, Aug. 25, 2019. (JTA/Basel Awidat/Flash90)
Posted inIsrael

Israel strikes Syrian airbase controlled by Iran, killing 3, London human rights group reports

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA January 16, 2020

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