Jubayr spent a month in Damascus, lodging in the Dar al-Hadith ("house of religious tradition") just west of the great Umayyad mosque. This institution no longer exists and in fact much of the ...

Four people were killed and sixteen injured in a crush at Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital Damascus on Friday ... incident occurred today in the Great Umayyad Mosque as a result of a stampede ...

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been ...

is a historical hospital and medical school in Damascus Old City, southwest of the Great Umayyad Mosque It was built in two phases. The Zangid sultan Nur al-Din Zangi erected the main building in ...

“Bashar al-Assad spread sectarianism, and today our country belongs to us all,” he told followers at the Umayyad Mosque in central Damascus.

Damascus, SANA- President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday morning performed Eid al-Adha holiday Prayer at al-Afram Mosque in Damascus. President al-Assad was accompanied in the prayer by the Minister of ...