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.

It played a key role in the spread of Islam in the region. 5. The Umayyad Mosque (Damascus, Syria) The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, was completed in 715 CE during the ...

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From Mosul's Great Mosque, al Baghdadi renames the group ... Ahmed al Sharaa speaks in a Damascus mosque after his fighters swept into the city. Pic: AP Ahmed al Sharaa speaks in a Damascus ...

The Great Mosque of Xi'an, China Next stop: the Great Mosque of Xi'an aka the mosque that throws every "what-a-mosque-should-look-like" idea out the window. Built back in 742 AD during the Tang ...

ALBAWABA - An Israeli incitement campaign sparked outrage on social media during the weekend after depicting the destruction of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque in an AI-generated video. Additionally ...

The situation led a speaker at a recent conference of exiles in Spain to say that rather than the “Great Game”, Afghanistan today was witnessing a “Great Abandonment”. The U.S. and Europe ...

Israeli fighter jets carried out airstrikes late Wednesday on the Syrian cities of Damascus and Hama, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported. “An Israeli occupation airstrike targeted the ...

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Reports of a mosque demolition in Gurdaspur, Punjab, sparked concern, but authorities clarified it was just a cleanup of a derelict structure. Leader of Opposition, Partap Singh Bajwa, had alleged ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A pair of Republican Congress members were in the Syrian capital Friday on an unofficial visit organized by a Syrian-American nonprofit, the first by U.S. legislators ...