Written in graffiti across the mosque wall is a sad plea for calm: "No and a thousand no's to sectarian strife." Beginning as an Arab Spring protest movement, Syria's civil war has taken on a ...

Four people were killed and sixteen injured in a crush at Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital Damascus ... He added that the Ministry of Interior had launched an investigation to determine the ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani visits the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque in the old city of ... his first official visit to post-Assad Syria on Friday with a tour of the landmark Umayyad ...

Syria’s new Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel Rahman says 14 "interior ministry personnel" were killed by what he described as the "remnants of the Assad regime”. Clashes took place in multiple cities, ...