Three Spanish Muslims who rode on horseback to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia say they followed a path not traveled for more than 500 years. Abdelkader Harkassi Aidi, Tarek Rodriguez and Abdallah ...

Three Spanish Muslims who rode on horseback to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia say they followed a path not traveled for more than ...

Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. The 13th-century ...

The 1,000-year-old minaret of Aleppo’s Umayyad Mosque fell Wednesday during heavy ... The army has been advancing on fronts across Syria in recent weeks, even in northern provinces where ...

Damascus, SANA-The Great Mosque ... Islamic mosque, one of the most luxurious Islamic mosques, and one of the seven wonders of Islam in the world. The construction of the Umayyad Mosque began ...

A stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital on Friday killed ... the unfortunate stampede that occurred today in the Great Umayyad Mosque and its surroundings is four dead and ...

Crossing from Aleppo ... outside the Umayyad Mosque, an edifice steeped in history that stands at the end of the Souq, in the heart of Damascus. The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria in December ...

Islamic fundamentalists in Syria have started to destroy ... has inflicted heavy damage, notably in Aleppo, where the minaret of the Great Umayyad Mosque was destroyed along with seven medieval ...

Damascus and Aleppo, Syria – Until the fall of the al-Assad ... standing outside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on the first Friday prayer after the regime’s collapse. A smile beaming on ...

Interim prime minister Mohammed al-Bashir addressed a large congregation at Damascus's landmark Umayyad Mosque ... in the main square of Syria's second city Aleppo, a scene of fierce fighting ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Thousands of worshipers crammed into the marble esplanade of Umayyad Mosque in Syria’s capital ... This is an excerpt from a full story. ALEPPO, Syria — In this city ...