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 ...

The Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State has sealed off a popular mosque called ‘Mosalasi Alhaja‘ over a leadership dispute following the demise of the Chief Imam. The Executive Chairman ...

As midday approaches in Damascus, Syria’s capital, thousands of people from all corners of the country converge on Umayyad Square, the city’s political and geographical heart. The square, once ...

The police announced on Wednesday that the statue was believed to date from the Hellenistic period, after the death of Alexander the Great ... The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising ...

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived in Damascus to step up the search for her son and said she hopes she ...

Syrians chant slogans and wave the Syrian flag as they gather for Friday prayers at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on December 13, 2024 [Leo Correa/AP Photo] It has been more than a month since ...

He spoke from the Damascus headquarters of the defunct Fourth Division where the drugs were seized. The Fourth Division was controlled by Assad's brother, Maher. Earlier, the official SANA news agency ...

Elon Musk invited a delegation of Indian business leaders at SpaceX's Starbase facility in Texas on Friday. Among the top business figures, OYO founder Ritesh Agarwal was also a part of the ...

The demonstrators gathered in Damascus' Umayyad Square, carrying banners that read, "Those who committed chemical massacres are the same as the murderers responsible for mass graves," and "There ...

For example, the ancient Greek population during the Archaic Period was, naturally, significantly less than during the Hellenistic Period when the conquests of Alexander the Great had great numbers of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome The archaeologists who recently excavated a private bath complex in a luxurious villa in the ancient city of Pompeii are still not sure whom it may have ...