Security forces stand guard at the Great Mosque of Damascus, one of the oldest Muslim houses of worship in the world. It is also called the Umayyad Mosque after the dynasty that first built it.

Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from ...

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”- Blaise Pascal Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime ...

Inside, trays of crunchy, cream-filled kunafa and syrup-drenched baklava are on display, and as Eid al-Fitr approaches to mark the end of Ramadan, biscuits and cookies traditionally baked for the ...

For decades, the small sultanate of Oman has lured travelers with its deep ties to tradition and its tranquil desert quarter.

Huge crowds, including some insurgents, packed Damascus' historic Umayyad Mosque in the capital's old ... a video message Friday congratulating "the great Syrian people for the victory of the ...

The massive dome of the Grand Mosque, and the city’s brilliant whites ... a well-attended goat market. The great travel writer Jan Morris, on a visit in 1955, described Bedouin women wearing ...

Tens of thousands gathered at the Umayyad Mosque for the first ... stormed his regime-run jails in Damascus and other Syrian regions and freed them. However, a great number of them, including ...

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Rifai, born in 1944 in Damascus, publicly expressed support for the Syrian opposition in 2011 and was subsequently beaten by Syrian security forces when they attacked the mosque where he was ...

Queen Toda approached Córdoba’s great ruler, the caliph ’Abd al-Rahman ... the 13th-century Divrigi Hospital was built alongside a mosque, and the two are a UNESCO World Heritage site.