Jubayr spent a month in Damascus, lodging in the Dar al-Hadith ("house of religious tradition") just west of the great Umayyad mosque. This institution no longer exists and in fact much of the ...

The mosque, one of the world's oldest dating ... that now we have a say and we can try to build.” Blocks away in Damascus' biggest roundabout, named Umayyad Square, thousands gathered, including ...

(MENAFN) A tragic stampede at the renowned Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Friday resulted in the deaths of three individuals, according to Governor Maher Marwan. The governor ...

Tajani earlier toured the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. He described the mosque, which is about 1,300 years old, as "one of the most beautiful" in the world. France's Foreign Minister Jean ...

Tajani earlier toured the landmark Umayyad mosque in Damascus. "It's a great pleasure... to be here this morning to visit and pay homage to all Syrian believers," he told AFP at the mosque ...