Jihadis in limbo: The ticking time bomb of Syria's forgotten ISIS prisons
They're the men no country wants. Locked up and accused of being Islamic State fighters, they're considered a threat to the ...
Middle East Eye15h
Who was Ibn Arabi? The medieval Sufi master of Damascus
Andalusian philosopher is known for a number of key ideas adopted by later Sufis, including the unity of being, the concept ...
Thousands of Syrians take to streets to mark civil war's 14th anniversary and celebrate ousting Assad - amid spiralling violence meted out against toppled dictator's follow…
Crowds waved flags and chanted in rallies in cities including Damascus and Aleppo to celebrate the victory of rebels in ...
Khaleej Times on MSN2d
Syrians mark 14th uprising anniversary with historic Damascus rally since Assad's fall
Syrians gathered on Saturday to commemorate the 14th anniversary of their uprising with a public demonstration in Damascus ...
On This Day, March 15: Haaland becomes 1st Native American Cabinet secretary
On March 15, 2021, the U.S. Senate confirmed Deb Haaland as secretary of the Interior Department, making her the first Native ...
Daily Sabah4d
The Ottoman minaret: An architectural marvel in stone
The Ottoman minaret, which is the standard minaret type in Türkiye and across the Balkans as well as being found in the ...
A country too dangerous to visit is one I can’t wait to return to
As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...
Religion Unplugged5d
‘Islamesque’: The Story Of The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Religious Monuments
Researcher and author Diana Darke argues that the connections between Islamic and Christian cultures during the medieval period were stronger than commonly believed. This cross-fertilization of ...