US envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack warned Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa that the country needs to recalibrate its policies, ...

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 ...

Violence in Syria's Druze province has triggered Israeli military action, complicating relations with Turkey and creating a ...

In his first public appearance since fighters entered the Damascus suburbs Saturday, al-Golani visited the sprawling Umayyad Mosque and called Assad's fall “a victory to the Islamic nation.” ...

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 ...

His observation of Muslims openly reciting the call to prayer (adhan) in China is significant. Other anecdotes include the division of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus into a mosque and Christian ...

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

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

The State Department revoked the terrorist designation of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, a group headed by the country’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa.

President Donald Trump continues to garner headlines for the policies and actions his administration has undertaken since the ...

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...

In 2024, the central mosque in the Czech capital, Prague, was shut down. Since then, the Muslim community has not been able to establish a new one.