The mosque we see today was built in 705 CE by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid on top of a fourth-century Christian church that had been erected over a temple of Jupiter. Incredibly, despite the recent ...

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

The death toll from a suicide bombing at the Mar Elias Church in the Dweila neighbourhood of Damascus on Sunday has risen to 25, Syria's state news agency SANA reported on Monday citing the ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once bustling with pilgrims, the Sayyida Zeinab shrine area is now subdued, ...

Suicide bomber kills at least 13 in Syrian church near Damascus during Mass State media says a suicide bomber in Syria has detonated himself inside a church filled with people, killing at least 13.

DAMASCUS - Syrian Christians were struggling on Monday to understand why their community was targeted in a suicide attack and whether they can rely on the Islamist-led government's assurances of ...

Suicide bomber kills at least 22 in packed Syrian church near Damascus Interior ministry says preliminary investigation points to Islamic State ...

Paris, SANA-The French Foreign Ministry condemned "in the strongest terms" the heinous terrorist attack that targeted Mar Elias Church in Damascus. "France offers its condolences to the families ...

The death toll from the attack on Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in the Douailah district of Damascus has risen to 22, with 59 others injured, according to Syria’s Ministry of Health.

Iran’s Fordo Site Said to Look Severely Damaged, Not Destroyed Initial military assessments of the buried nuclear site contrast with the statement on the strike there made by President Trump.

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds.

Israel and the U.S. are bombing military and government sites in Iran, destroying or jeopardizing its cultural and artistic heritage.