Father Jihad Youssef, carrying a picture of Italian Jesuit priest Paolo Dall'Ogli — LOUAI BESHARA In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest ...
AL-QUNAIYAH, Syria, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- As night fell over the small village of Al-Quniyah in Syria's northwestern Idlib countryside, the sound of drums echoed through narrow streets for the first ...
When, in the mid-1990s, Jens Petzold first arrived in Syria, it was only supposed to be a temporary stop on his journey eastward from his native Switzerland. An agnostic and spiritual seeker, his real ...