Authorities have halted the construction of a mosque in Zaz, a historic Syriac village in the Midyat district of Mardin, southeastern Turkey, following opposition from local Syriac groups. George ...

(Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images) When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church ... The new Syrian flag, similar to the independence flag used from the 1930s ...

Gov. Maura Healey announced that state and national flags will fly at half-staff in Massachusetts today, March 7 to honor United States Navy Ensign Oliver Cole of Beverly. A graduate of the ...

Apple has replaced the flag used by the ousted regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with the Syrian independence flag associated with the 2011 revolution and used by the current Syrian interim ...

The hidden text is a fragment of the Old Syriac version of the Gospels, dating back to approximately the sixth century. This makes it one of only four known manuscripts containing parts of the Old ...

The Georgia Forestry Commission says that the fires burned about 2,400 acres of land with nearly 140 fires breaking out on Saturday. Trump dashes hope for last-minute Canada and Mexico deal ahead ...

Anti-Israel protesters who display the flag of terror groups such as Hamas or Hezbollah could face up to four years behind bars under a new state bill. The proposed ...

Cuts to the Department of Education are hitting national student assessments even as sirens blare on student test scores. The 17-year-old long-term National Assessment of Educational Progress ...

Six Flags Great Adventures announced the demolition of the world's tallest rollercoaster in 2024. It will be replaced by North America's "first super boomerang coaster" After a nearly 20-year run ...

Six Flags’ iconic Kingda Ka roller coaster — once ranked the tallest and fastest in the world — has been reduced to mere rubble in a caught-on-camera implosion. Footage of the dramatic ...

Kingda Ka, once the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world, is now a pile of rubble after it was imploded at New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure on Friday morning. The implosion ...

Kingda Ka previously operated as the world's tallest — and, for a past period, fastest — roller coaster, until Six Flags Great Adventure closed the ride with no warning. Entertainment Weekly's ...