This Ramadan, Syrians marked the 14th anniversary of the start of their country’s civil war. The conflict began as one of ...

A bronze buck from the Umayyad era sold for £4.2 million ($5.4 million) at a Sotheby’s auction dedicated to artworks from the Islamic world and India. The eighth-century sculpture surpassed its ...

Four people were killed and sixteen injured in a crush at Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital Damascus on Friday, Damascus Health Director Dr Mohammed Akram Maatouq told the state-run Sana news agency.

The Assad regime responded by massacring and killing people. In Damascus, people celebrated in Umayyad Square to mark the anniversary. It is a new era in Syria. There were more celebrations in ...

A Syrian security forces helicopter showers confetti and flowers over crowds celebrating the 14th anniversary of Syria's uprising in Umayyad Square, Damascus, on 15 March 2025 (AFP) This year ...

From the early morning hours, crowds of men, women and children flocked to pray at Damascus’s historic Umayyad Mosque in the Old City. “This is the first time we truly feel the joy of Eid ...

Built in the early 8th century, this exceptionally well-preserved desert castle was both a fortress with a garrison and a residence of the Umayyad caliphs. The most outstanding features of this small ...

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 ...