a place of worship since the Iron Age and the city's greatest mosque since the eighth century. "We are gathering because we're happy Syria has been freed, we're happy to have been liberated from ...

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

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani began his first official visit to post-Assad Syria on Friday with a tour of the landmark Umayyad mosque in Damascus. "It's a ...

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 ...

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' Omayyad Mosque ...

US Warns of Possible Attacks in Syria During a Muslim Holiday DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The U.S. warned of an increased possibility of attacks in Syria during the Eid el-Fitr holiday that marks the ...

Although the surrounding architecture, including a connected mosque, has been severely damaged, the interior of the sheik’s shrine had been spared. My interpreter, from Syria’s Ministry of ...

"Today, this position is held by one of the finest scholars" in Syria, Sharaa said in a statement ... year when government forces stormed his mosque, beating and arresting people, and he left ...

A burned and mangled car can also be seen sitting in front of the damaged mosque in this footage ... in rural Damascus today //t.co/3t9qR6FMbf #Syria: Terrorists detonated a car bomb near Khaled ...

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 ...