(Reuters) -Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) said. Five children suffered fractures, severe ...

Israel’s army has confirmed that one of the bodies recovered from Gaza earlier this week was that of 23-year-old hostage ...

Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with hope following 13 years of civil war. Gunshots rang out from Mount ...

A hurriedly executed survey of an ancient masjid, protests leading to the death of five, the finding of several “closed” temples since, and an intensified anti-power theft drive around the contested ...

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat has faced criticism from a prominent spiritual leader over his recent comments opposing the revival of temple-mosque disputes. "Mohan Bhagwat does not understand the plight ...

Turkish-backed candidates include Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib, a former imam of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, former prime minister Riyad Farid Hijab, Khaled Khoja (Halid Hoca), a Syrian Turkmen who ...

address a crowd at the capital's landmark Umayyad Mosque on December 8, 2024. (credit: AREF TAMMAWI/AFP via Getty Images) After years of being confined to Idlib, HTS launched a major offensive in ...

It was first built as a church, but later was transformed into a mosque, later a museum and recently declared as a mosque. Construction work had begun upon an order by the Byzantine emperor Justinian ...

It was first built as a church, but later was transformed into a mosque, later a museum and recently declared as a mosque. Construction work had begun upon an order by the Byzantine emperor ...

Thirteen years later I found myself back at the Omari Mosque in Deraa ... As we made our way to the central Umayyad Square, we saw people tearing down the symbols of the regime.