The Canadian government on Wednesday announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of transition.
As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...
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 ...
Survivors have shared harrowing accounts of the violence, describing scenes of mass executions and widespread destruction.
After the Syrian government launched a chemical attack on the rebel-held area of Douma, Syria, in 2018, some of the survivors were forced to falsely testify it never happened. Now, some of those ...
Outside, the remains of the Roman temple of Jupiter lead into the Umayyad Mosque, one of the oldest in the world. The nearby Citadel hosts the tomb of Saladin, one of the most iconic fighters ...
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 ...
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