“I didn’t step foot in Umayyad Mosque since 2011," because of the tight ... including many families with small children — a ...

For Syrians observing Ramadan, this Muslim holy month is their first in their homeland since the end of the Assad family's ...

At the Umayyad Mosque, the rituals were age-old: A woman fingering a prayer bead and kissing a copy of the Quran; the faithful standing shoulder-to-shoulder and prostrating in prayer; the Umayyad ...