Violence in Syria's Druze province has triggered Israeli military action, complicating relations with Turkey and creating a power vacuum that Iran could exploit.

The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest continuously used religious sites in the world. The mosque we see today was built in 705 CE by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid on top of a ...

NNA - Lebanon's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian stood atop Mount Qasioun, gazing over the Syrian capital—a city he had not entered before the fall of the Assad regime. His presence ...

NNA - Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa and Lebanon’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian had an hour-long meeting at the People’s Palace in Damascus on Saturday. Derian&rsqu ...

More than 15 people were killed and dozens injured in Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida in the latest bout of sectarian clashes between Druze gunmen and Bedouin Sunni tribes, witnesses said ...

al-Sulamī was also a grammarian who taught in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. His Kitāb al-Jihād (Book of Jihād) published in ...

Each year, the thick, porridge-like soup is made in a large, communal pot with sometimes dozens of cooks taking part in the ...

The destruction and safeguarding of Gaza’s cultural heritage are the themes of a new exhibition that opened in Paris earlier ...

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Abidin, peace be on him, suffered ideological stagnation and dangerous collapse in cultural, scientific life, for the Umayyad ...

Becoming a shiite especially during the period of Al Imam Zain Al ‘Abedeen (pbuh) was accompanied with suffering from harsh ...