Israeli, US researchers suggest powerful army quarried and transported 3 million stones in just weeks to build a ramp for battering rams to breach the hilltop stronghold in 701 BCE

Lethal Arrow drill simulates fighting in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and elsewhere against Iranian proxies and Palestinian terror groups

Just 1,000 of 20,000 members of Christian minority remain in Syria after Islamic State invasion; now, the remnants of community fear being 'pushed into exile'