and fainting in an initial toll following a stampede inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus,” the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, said in a statement. The stampede, according to ...

He walked by the skyscraping stone minaret, passed through the white columns and prayed under ... As they converged on Damascus on Dec. 8, Assad fled the capital city, boarding a plane to Russia.

Crossing the border from Jordan on Dec. 29, one North Jersey man had tears in his eyes. “I hugged the first Syrian person I saw,” he said.

In the urban Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, children climbed on the destroyed minaret of a mosque ... on Syria during a landmark visit to Damascus, the first since Islamist rebels ...

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said in a speech in Oslo last week that for Israel, its sovereign territory refers to “occupied East Jerusalem.” Its staff there “will be ...

In the urban Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, children climbed on the destroyed minaret of a mosque ... Friday the need to lift sanctions on Syria during a landmark visit to Damascus, the first ...

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said in a speech in Oslo last week that for Israel, its sovereign territory refers to “occupied East Jerusalem ... children climbed on the destroyed ...

Photos Martin Luther King Jr ...

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani visited Damascus on Thursday and met newly declared transitional President Ahmed ...