Islamic authorities in Jerusalem condemned the excavation and expansion work carried out by Israeli occupation’s municipal ...

Thousands of jubilant Syrians converged on Damascus's landmark Umayyad Mosque for Friday prayers, waving opposition flags and chanting -- a sight unimaginable a week ago before rebels ousted ...

Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from ...

On May 6, 1935, in the depths of the Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the ...

Outside the Umayyad Mosque in the Old City of Damascus on a recent morning, Aamir al-Haj Omar, 39, a member of a civil defense group, scanned the walls. The group, known as the White Helmets ...

After the toppling of Assad last December, headlines blared about Turkey’s intelligence chief praying at the famous Umayyad mosque in Damascus with cameras rolling. After the prayer, Turkish ...

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 ...

“Bashar al-Assad spread sectarianism, and today our country belongs to us all,” he told followers at the Umayyad Mosque in central Damascus.

However, the study highlights the significant similarities between Copernicus and Ibn al-Shatir, an engineer, mathematician and astronomer who was the timekeeper for the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus ...

At the northernmost exit is the Umayyad Mosque, one of the holiest sites of Islam and a gem of eighth-century architecture. To the right, up a flight of stairs (beware the low ceiling), is the Old ...

However, the study highlights the significant similarities between Copernicus and Ibn al-Shatir, an engineer, mathematician and astronomer who was the timekeeper for the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus ...