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

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

DAMASCUS—Syria’s new leaders have to figure out what to do with thousands of foreign fighters in their ranks, whom many in ...

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 ...

The cemetery extends from Bab al-Asbat to the end of the eastern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, reaching the Umayyad palaces area south of the mosque.

Rebel fighters pose as they hold a Syrian opposition flag at the Umayyad Mosque, after rebels seized the capital and ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria December 9, 2024.

Egypt on Monday issued a strong condemnation of calls by Israeli settler groups to bomb the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in ...

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 ...