Written in graffiti across the mosque wall is a sad plea for calm: "No and a thousand no's to sectarian strife." Beginning as an Arab Spring protest movement, Syria's civil war has taken on a ...

Damascus: A stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital on Friday killed four people, a Damascus health official told state media. "Damascus Health Director Dr Mohammed Akram ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani began his first official visit to post-Assad Syria on Friday with a tour of the landmark Umayyad mosque in Damascus. "It's a ...

In his first public comments since the overnight collapse of Syria’s long-time dictatorship ... us all,” he told followers at the Umayyad Mosque in central Damascus.

Aid workers and camp officials - led by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led force that helps run a semi-autonomous zone in northeastern Syria - have long called for the ...

Syria, and Yemen. Jakim director-general Datuk Dr Sirajuddin Suhaimee said the prayers will be held at three major mosques under the department’s purview, namely the National Mosque in the ...