The Ottoman minaret, which is the standard minaret type in Türkiye and across the Balkans as well as being found in the ...

A limited number of older Palestinians were allowed into Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, in ...

Umayyad Mosque ... a great centre of civilisation, or at least a living memento of past greatness. And a place of rare and unexpected pleasures. On my first night in Damascus I lost my goatee ...

Some 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City under tight security by Israeli forces ...

The European Union on Sunday condemned the recent attacks on Syria’s western coastal areas which have reportedly claimed the lives of over 1,000 people in two days.

Ahmed al-Shara, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, speaking at a mosque in Damascus ... “Either he is just a great actor or he has a kind of spongelike personality that ...

A limited number of older Palestinians were allowed into Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan, the holy month, in a wary ...

it was the first time in four or five years he had been able to travel to the al-Aqsa mosque. “It’s a great feeling,” he said as he passed through the Damascus Gate, one of the main ...

A week later, they took Hama, then Homs and Damascus, forcing Bashar to flee ... showed the destruction of Hama’s churches and its Great Mosque, wrought by Assad regime bombs in 1982.