Deir Ez-Zor Heritage Library team on site. Image Courtesy of Deir Ez-Zor Heritage Library It is common for states to have legislation and institutions that protect their built heritage.

The complex in Deir ez-Zor consisted of a church, a museum, a library, a special hall for assemblies and other adjacent sections. His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia will visit ...

"If the situation stabilizes, His Holiness Aram I will immediately visit Deir ez-Zor." Consecrated in 1991, the memorial complex served as church, museum, monument, archive center and exhibition hall.

The people of Deir ez-Zor are surrounded—and scared. Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria already control about 40% of this city in Syria’s eastern desert and have ...

Syria’s army broke a years-long Islamic State (IS) siege on the government enclave of Deir-ez-Zor city on Tuesday as it battled to expel the jihadists from a key stronghold. The jihadist group ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has called for an end to the current conflict in the Deir ez-Zor area in eastern Syria, where more than 50 people, many of them civilians ...

In a race with the Russia-backed Syrian government forces and Shiite militia groups to capture the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor from Islamic State militants, a Syrian rebel group supported by the U ...

During the first half of the war, managing the weakened and fractured tribes, particularly in Deir ez-Zor, seemed to be a low priority. However, the rise of ISIS in central Syria in 2014 proved an ...