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 ...

Morocco publicly honors its Jewish history; there ... the pictures of the destroyed synagogue in Damascus. Sherman was documenting Tunisian sites in 2010 when she decided on her own to go to ...

along with additional remaining military infrastructure sites in the area of Damascus". Last month, Israel said it struck the T4 military base in central Homs province twice, targeting military ...

This would basically mean that Damascus would then control all of Syria and all the various groups that developed during the Syrian civil war. The meeting between Abdi and Sharaa is historic.

Their main concern is that the historic Jewish sites in Damascus are crumbling. Without the ability to invest in repairs and ...