The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the first mosque in which the mihrab and the apse appeared as a result of ...

Damascus,SANA- The Damascus National Museum is one of the most important in the world and contains archaeological pieces that ...

About 40,000 worshipers performed Friday prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in light of the strict military measures imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities on access to the mosque, according to the ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau congratulated Syria's interim president today, despite him leading a group Canada still ...

As the de facto ruler of Damascus, HTS has attempted to rebrand itself as a moderate group capable of governance, seeking to distance itself from its history of extremism and terrorism. However, Syria ...

There are two versions of Sayyida Zaynab, the suburb south of Damascus and home to a shrine for a revered Muslim figure. One ...

President Trump has already shaken up the Middle East by suggesting a U.S. takeover of Gaza. More drama could be on the way ...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said on Thursday they targeted President Bashar al-Assad's motorcade heading to a Damascus mosque to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, but state television ...

Back at the turn of the 21st century, Qatar was a country with few cultural attractions to keep visitors and residents ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun was a figure closely linked to the former regime of Bashar Al-Assad, and has been in hiding since the ...

The tightened grip could undermine hopes for an open society that many Syrians have expressed since HTS ended five decades of ...