Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani visits the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Damascus Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani (2nd L) visits the eighth-century Umayyad ...

A thriving Blackburn mosque proposes to raise its roof to accommodate six new classrooms. Masjid-E-Gausia, in Chester Street near the town centre, has asked for planning permission for the change ...

“You can walk around Damascus now without encountering checkpoints, without having to see pictures of Bashar al-Assad everywhere,” said Bassam al-Kuwatli, president of the Syrian liberal party Ahrar. ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Sheikh Omar Houri, from the Al-Midan neighborhood and imam of the Musab bin Umair Mosque in the Baramkeh neighborhood, was killed in Damascus ...

They included some jailed at the notorious Sednaya prison outside Damascus, where his Office documented violations “for years”. The UN rights chief described prisoners telling him that “early in the ...

Gaziantep carpet makers in southeastern Türkiye have started working to renovate the carpets of the historical Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. After the fall of the Assad regime, as life begins to ...

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A Muslim convert threatened to "flatten" a mosque, plotted to attack an Islamic cleric who was an outspoken critic of terrorism and researched potential military and police targets, a jury heard.

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At least three women were killed, and five children suffered severe fractures, bruises, and fainting during a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday afternoon.

Four people were killed and several others injured in an apparent crowd crush outside Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, when large crowds gathered for free meals being handed out by a well-known chef.

A horrific stampede at Damascus’s Umayyad Mosque on Friday has killed three women and injured five children. The incident occurred after chef and TikToker Abu Omar stated on December 30, 2024 that he ...