On the first such day after Assad’s fall they called it: “Friday of Victory”. Thousands flocked to the capital’s landmark Umayyad Mosque, some raising the three-star Syrian independence flag which ...

It is no surprise that the Islamist rebel chose Damascus’s venerated Umayyad Mosque – not a TV studio, nor newly absented presidential palace, but a place of towering religious significance, which at ...

Interim Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir addressed the crowd outside Damascus' landmark Umayyad Mosque and said ‘It is the birth of a nation’. People in the crowd were seen raising the Syrian flag ...

Video posted on social media appears to show Israeli police beating Palestinian worshippers at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque. Israeli police say they conducted a pre-dawn raid, after what they called ...

The newly installed interim prime minister delivered the sermon at the Umayyad Mosque, declaring that a new era of “freedom, dignity and justice” was dawning for Syria. The gatherings ...

DAMASCUS: Exuberant Syrians observed the first Friday prayers since the ouster of President Bashar Assad , gathering in the capital's historic main mosque, its largest square and around the ...

I had just lost myself in the gripping twists of my mystery novel when the receptionist’s voice broke the quiet: 'The doctor has been delayed due to unforeseen circumstances. Those unable to ...