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 ...

Measure comes amid warming ties between Damascus and Washington, which seeks to reintegrate war-battered country into global economy ...

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 ...

The Union asserted that what happened in the Great Umayyad Mosque is part of the repeated attacks on Islamic Sanctities according to a methodical plan by Israel and its protector the United States.

Pilgrims, including three from Spain, visit the Umayyad Mosque during a months-long horseback journey from Spain to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj, in Damascus, Syria, April 21, 2025.

Dis na view of Umayyad Mosque as Muslims greet each oda and gada to perform di first Eid al-Adha prayer afta di fall of di Bashar al-Assad regime for Damascus, capital city of Syria on 6 June, 2025 ...

Damascus, SANA-Amidst the trees in the garden of National Museum in Damascus, young Farouk Saies presented new models of the minarets of the Umayyad Mosque. This project, titled “The Fortress ...

The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, was completed in 715 CE during the rule of the Umayyad Caliphate. It is one of the oldest and most well-preserved mosques in the world.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the ...

At the Umayyad Mosque, the rituals were age-old: A woman fingering a prayer bead and kissing a copy of the Quran; the faithful standing shoulder-to-shoulder and prostrating in prayer; the Umayyad’s ...