The 11th-century minaret of the Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo, one of the world's oldest and most important, has been destroyed by shellfire as the Syrian war consumes the country's vast ...

ALEPPO, Syria – The Great Mosque of Aleppo, a centuries-old treasure at the heart of one of the world's oldest cities, is today a grim monument to the ravages of Syria's war. The doors have been ...

The Umayyad Mosque is inside Aleppo’s walled Old City, and is a Unesco World Heritage site. It is the second instance where a historic Sunni mosque was heavily damaged recently.

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) - The Great Mosque of Aleppo, a centuries-old treasure at the heart of one of the world's oldest cities, is today a grim monument to the ravages of Syria's war. The doors have ...

15 October 2012 DAMASCUS - President Bashar al-Assad on Monday issued Presidential Decision No. 18 for 2012 on forming a committee to carry out maintenance and rehabilitation works of the Great ...

Rebels posted video of themselves inside a heavily damaged chamber of Aleppo's nearly 1,000-year-old Great Mosque. It is a major landmark in Syria's largest city, where rebels and the government ...

In a speech from the Umayyad Mosque on Sunday, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of Syria’s main rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), called the toppling of Assad a “victory for the ...

Over the course of its 1,300-year history, the Umayyad mosque has seen many great personalities come and go. While some passed through, others spent time as students or teachers.

In a speech from the Umayyad Mosque on Sunday, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of Syria’s main rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), called the toppling of Assad a “victory for the ...

(CNN) — At the historic Umayyad Mosque in the heart of Damascus, a red, white, black and green flag flies. The Assad regime ruled Syria for 50 years. Here’s how it fell in less than two weeks ...