Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, sparking a power struggle with radical preachers backed by new strongman ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani visited the Umayyad Mosque in Syria ... led by Tajani at the People’s Palace in Damascus, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA.

Syria’s new leadership announced Wednesday that Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named interim president and assigned to establish a ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani began his first official visit to post-Assad Syria on Friday with a tour of the landmark Umayyad mosque ... at the presidential palace later in the morning.

At least three women were killed and five children injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian civil defence said. The children suffered fractures ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

During a visit to Syria, after Assad's fall, Shahira Salloum, managing editor of Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, reflects on Syria's ...

Tajani earlier toured the landmark Umayyad mosque in Damascus. "It's a great pleasure... to be here this morning to visit and pay homage to all Syrian believers," he told AFP at the mosque ...

Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, traveling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani visits the eighth-century Umayyad ... meet Syria’s de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and his counterpart Asaad al-Shaibani at the presidential palace later ...