Many held the Syrian independence flag, used by the opposition since the uprising began. Dozens of street vendors around the mosque were selling the three-star flags -- which none would dare to ...

Sermons in Syrian mosques rejoiced in the return of power to its rightful owners, the Sunni majority, now supported by a jihadist ideology rooted in Najd. To fully grasp the roots of the current ...

Its 29-year-old manager, Samer Kahwaji, is an ambassador of sorts for Syria’s glorious past as well as an advocate for greater freedoms today. “When that mosque was built,” Kahwaji told me ...

This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Pope John Paul II has become the first Pontiff to enter a mosque during his groundbreaking pilgrimage to Syria. The country's top Muslim clerics are escorting the Pope through ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the ...