declared in the Umayyad Mosque. The mosque is a symbol of the old Caliphate and it echoed the speech given by his old friend, the former ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in Mosul’s Great Mosque ...

The crowds gathered at Umayyad Square waving the new regime's flag and chanting slogans against Assad. (AP Video by Ghaith Al-Sayed) Trump suggests he wants to buy Greenland 3 Key Social Security ...

Thousands of Syrians, many newly returned to the country after the fall of Assad, celebrated their new government with fireworks and the new flag in Damascus’s Umayyad Square.

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The Han Dynasty unified China and spread its influence across East Asia. The Umayyad Caliphate expanded the Islamic state, while the Mongol Empire stretched from Central Asia to Europe.

The streets of Syria’s cities and towns are flooded with demonstrations celebrating the fall of Bashar al-Assad, after tens of thousands gathered at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus for the first ...

Footage filmed and posted to X by journalist Gareth Browne shows the White Helmets arriving at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus for Jummah prayer on Friday. The White Helmets are a humanitarian ...

“May god give us better days ahead.” Crowds of Syrians moving past Roman ruins on way to Umayyad Mosque for Friday prayers on 13 December 2024 (Daniel Hilton/MEE) Mohammed was among jubilant ...

Thousands of Syrians converged at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus ahead of Friday prayers where the leader of the Islamist rebels who seized power last week is expected, AFP correspondents ...

In an impoverished, war-ravaged country, the first prayers after the fall of a brutal regime drew jubilant crowds, even in areas seen as regime strongholds. By Ben Hubbard and Raja Abdulrahim Ben ...