Umayyad Mosque at sunset – a Christian basilica ... iStock For an incurable antiquarian and aspiring epicurean, the old town of Damascus was a kind of paradise. Seated around us at al-Naranj ...
As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...
Additional plates or discs which Arab scientists invented. They were used as supplementary tools to be inserted into astronomical instruments like ...
Turkey’s top diplomat, defense minister and intelligence chief paid a sudden visit to Damascus. The visit Thursday comes days ...
Damascus, SANA-The Great Mosque of Bani Umayyah ... The construction of the Umayyad Mosque began in 705 AD by al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik. The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the ...
ALBAWABA - The restoration of the Damascus Sword monument in Umayyad Square has become a topic of heated debate in Syria after authorities announced the completion of repair work following damage ...
DAMASCUS, 25 February (BelTA - SANA ... The construction of the Umayyad Mosque began in 705 AD by al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik. The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the first mosque ...
Fighters siding with Syria's new government stormed three villages near the country's coast, killing dozens of men in ...
Damascenes are experiencing the first Holy Month of Ramadan without the al-Assad family in more than five decades. Bashar al-Assad, who took over from his father Hafez, was the last of the family ...
The Canadian government on Wednesday announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of transition.