He walked by the skyscraping stone minaret, passed through the white columns and prayed under ... As they converged on Damascus on Dec. 8, Assad fled the capital city, boarding a plane to Russia.

The Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, commemorates today in Damascus the second anniversary of the earthquake ...

The Al-Hadba minaret in Mosul, Iraq has been successfully reconstructed after its destruction by Islamic State forces. Unesco led the restoration, using original brickwork to preserve its ...

MOSUL, Iraq - The al-Hadba minaret in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul was destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2017. UNESCO has been restoring the minaret for years. It was reopened in a ...

"What we see here today is the Syria that I love... the music, the people who have come to listen -- that's the best image of ...

The press conference at the Syrian Civil Defence Centre in Damascus showcased collaboration between the Qatari Search and Rescue Team and the White Helmets. It highlighted joint efforts in ...

The minaret and mosque are the latest landmarks in Mosul to be restored with the help of UNESCO — Zaid AL-OBEIDI The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original ...

DAMASCUS, Va. (WDBJ) - With Vice President J.D. Vance visiting Damascus Monday, WDBJ7 checked in with people living in the town to learn more about the community’s ongoing recovery after the ...

The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to rubble under Islamic State group rule.France 24's James André was in ...

MOSUL, Iraq — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017.

DAMASCUS-Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad ...

Qatar's Emir Visits Syria, First Head of State to Visit Damascus Since Assad's Fall DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani visited Damascus on Thursday and met newly ...