Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013 ... deadliest episode of Syria’s 13-year civil war. At least 1,500 people died ...

The architectural genius of this place of worship — which was built as a ... the Blue Mosque, and Fatih Mosque. While the 2024 introduction of a 25 euro ticket price may have raised eyebrows, 2025 saw ...

As a lifelong academic and university denizen, I am chagrined that only this year I learned that Al ... where I was amazed by the Blue Mosque, a structure built on centuries of architectural ...

More than 1,000 sinkholes have appeared in the past 15 years. In that time ... of Akko and Jerusalem to Damascus and Baghdad. The Romans, Ottomans and British all built bridges over the Jordan ...

I should mention here that I’ve never been to Damascus. Also, this synagogue no longer exists. Upper left, the sanctuary of Eliyahu Hanavi-Jobar in 2010. One tradition holds that it was built on ...

Gaza fell after three years of siege in which the ... King Baldwin III built a small castle there in 1149 and granted the city and its surroundings to the Knights Templar. The Great Mosque of Gaza was ...

The historic center, where the palace and government buildings lie between massive castles built by the Portuguese ... The massive dome of the Grand Mosque, and the city’s brilliant whites ...

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Built in the fourth century, this square was Constantinople’s primary venue for chariot races. Its centerpiece, a 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk ... Architecturally, the Blue Mosque, with its six ...

The event, which also honoured the 1.5 million Muslim fighters who lost their lives during the Second World War, took place at the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking, Surrey – the oldest purpose-built mosque ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

The victim was stabbed dozens of times last Friday while he was praying, and critics say officials were slow to call it a ...