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 Muslim holy month, in ...

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

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

In a televised speech on Friday, he called on the armed groups to surrender, stressing they had committed a “great and unforgivable ... a speech at a local mosque in Damascus, amid reports ...

(AP Photo/Leo Correa) Israeli Border Police stand guard at the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem as worshippers make their way to the Al-Aqsa Mosque ... It brings a great reward from ...

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 entrances to ...

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.

The pilgrimage was celebrated with great pomp and was a source of pride for Damascene Muslims, a testament to their city’s religious prestige. The Umayyad Mosque was a masterpiece of early Islamic ...