VISITING THE UMAYYAD MOSQUE IN DAMASCUS, SYRIA. [Restrictions: Spain, Latin America, or the U.S. Hispanic market] The Best Movies of All Time UK's biggest 'dinosaur highway' footprint site ...

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Mohamed Khairullah crossed the border into Syria and headed straight to the Rawdah Mosque in Aleppo ... As they converged on Damascus on Dec. 8, Assad fled the capital city, boarding a plane ...

Religion is perhaps Mr Sharaa’s biggest challenge ... At a recent Friday service in a mosque in an upmarket part of Damascus, the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ...

A vast and eccentric collection of everything from vintage Rolls-Royces to an entire house relocated from Syria, the Sheikh ...

The Umayyad Mosque in the Old City of Damascus is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. (Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0) A video has circulated widely on Syrian networks ...

But which were the largest? According to WorldAtlas ... including the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the Great Mosque of Damascus (pictured here). Both buildings were constructed on top of old ...

Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are ...

Crowds of displaced Palestinians made the arduous journey back to heavily destroyed northern Gaza for a second day, under a ...

DAMASCUS (AP) — Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad, gathering in the capital's historic main mosque, its largest square and around the ...

While HTS was certainly the largest and most effective group during the advance ... The venue of his speech was highly symbolic: the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, one of the most important mosques in ...

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