Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, sparking a power struggle with radical preachers backed by new strongman ...

As Pope Francis appoints Cardinal George Koovakad as Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, the Indian-born ...

Syria’s new de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, had just reversed his order to take over a grand old Ottoman ... Friday service in a mosque in an upmarket part of Damascus, the ambassadors of ...

he relationship between a city and literature is reciprocal. The city nourishes the imagination of writers while writers ...

Sitting behind his grand wooden desk in the Damascus headquarters of the Syrian ... The bullet holes in the walls of the mosque opposite its entrance are still clearly visible.

The emperors improved communication across their domain by building new roads and expanding the Grand Canal that snaked 1,000 miles ... including the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the Great Mosque ...

Sariya's brother, Grand Mufti Osama Rifai, was also in attendance ... In August of that year, Osama was hospitalised after Assad’s forces attacked the Rifai Mosque in Damascus - a focal point for ...

A stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital on Friday killed four people, a Damascus health official told state media. "Damascus Health Director Dr Mohammed Akram Maatouq ...

At least three women were killed, and five children suffered severe fractures, bruises, and fainting during a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday afternoon.

Three women were killed and several injured, including five children, in a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus Friday, the Syrian civil defense force known as the White Helmets said in a ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) said. Five children suffered ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani visited the Umayyad Mosque in Syria’s capital Damascus. Tajani was guided by local authorities during his visit to the mosque. Syrian Foreign Minister ...