For Syrians observing Ramadan, this Muslim holy month is their first in their homeland since the end of the Assad family's ...

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 ...

Scholars involved in excavation of Jerash, ancient Gerasa, discovered an Islamic-period mint in the city. Copper coins were issued in both a pre-reform and post-reform series."This seemingly ...

Many tourists love learning about a new place, but some countries are currently dangerous and are on the US government's ...

The Ottoman minaret, which is the standard minaret type in Türkiye and across the Balkans as well as being found in the ...

Then, cameras still in tow, Sharaa went to the city’s historic Umayyad mosque to announce that ... after Baghdadi announced a plan to merge his group with Nusra. He hadn’t consulted Sharaa ...

At the Umayyad Mosque, the rituals were age-old: A woman fingering a prayer bead and kissing a copy of the Quran; the faithful standing shoulder-to-shoulder and prostrating in prayer; the Umayyad ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country’s first Ramadan after the end of the ...