Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity.

Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.

Thousands have fled into Lebanon after tensions between Syria’s Alawite minority and forces backing the new government exploded last week.

According to MP George Aslan, the presence of a mosque in the village could discourage Syriacs from reclaiming their land.

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, approved today, February 20, 2025, the Saudi riyal symbol; a historic move that will reinforce the Saudi currency's identity.

I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

During the 2000s, Turkey arguably developed warmer relations with Syria than it had during the heyday of the old establishment ... s Istanbul branch and youth organizations cooperated with mosques to ...

Two days of fighting along the Mediterranean coast were among the bloodiest battles since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

Robert Beer is an 18-year Army veteran and a manager at the Sam's Club in Niagara Falls. He and another woman jumped into action to save a man who went into cardiac arrest.