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

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 ...

Umayyad Mosque at sunset – a Christian basilica ... Somewhat disconcertingly, the women in our tour group were compelled once inside the mosque to don pale blue hooded robes as revealing as ...

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 ...

In 690, however, the caliph ‘Abd al-Malik of the Umayyad Dynasty rebuilt the al-Aqsa Mosque, into a much larger ... Calligraphy adorned both the inside and outside of the building, with some ...

The Umayyad Mosque was a masterpiece of early Islamic architecture ... Christians had slaughtered Muslims inside a mosque in Homs; Christians in Damascus were arming themselves to attack Muslims ...

The construction of the Umayyad Mosque began in 705 AD by al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik. The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the first mosque in which the mihrab and the apse appeared as ...

Police are investigating after paint was thrown at a mosque and a rock hurled through a window while worshippers were inside. Aberdeen Mosque and Islamic Centre has condemned the “wilful and ...