DAMASCUS, 25 February (BelTA - SANA) - The Great Mosque of Bani Umayyah in Damascus ... from which the square minaret model spread to all parts of Syria, North Africa and Andalusia.

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been ...

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 ...

He mentored a teenage Sharaa at the local mosque ... this new Syria now that her neighbor helped topple the former regime. LAMA KARKUTLI: We want to celebrate here - really enjoy Damascus.

Earlier Sunday, Syria’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa had appealed for national unity. “God willing, we will be able to live together in this country,” Sharaa said from a Damascus mosque.

“We have to preserve national unity and domestic peace, we can live together,” Sharaa said in a circulated video, speaking at a mosque in Mazzah area of Damascus. “Rest assured about ...

The European Union on Sunday condemned the recent attacks on Syria’s western coastal areas which have reportedly claimed the lives of over 1,000 people in two days.

The violent clashes in Syria’s coastal region on Thursday and ... They also served as an apt reminder to the new authorities in Damascus that they cannot reconquer the entire country nor impose ...