Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani visits the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque in the old city of Damascus Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani (2nd L) visits the eighth-century Umayyad ...

The Umayyad Mosque in the Old City of Damascus is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. (Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0) A video has circulated widely on Syrian networks ...

DAMASCUS-Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Assad ...

A bookseller shows a volume that was reportedly banned during the rule of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad — LOUAI BESHARA Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical ...

Senior Tories want former prime minister Liz Truss to “take a holiday” and get out of the public gaze for “at least a year”. The comments came after Ms Truss became a popular fixture ...

Turkish Airlines launched flights from Instanbul to the Syrian capital Damascus from January 23rd, with three flights a week, while Royal Jordanian is also expected to recommence services at the ...

“What you’ve been saying this morning sounds very like that,” Phillips said – before revealing it was a comment from former PM Truss, who famously crashed the economy in 2022 with £45bn ...

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as al-Jolani, said that Trump could bring peace to the Middle East, according to the Times of Israel. Social media users are claiming to show al-Jolani ...

Indonesia boasts the world’s biggest Muslim population. Plenty of Japanese use the mosque to pray, officials said. “We hope to make this mosque a place that all Muslims feel free to visit ...

As a result of a regime change in Syria, Turkish Airlines has resumed service to Damascus, the capital of Syria. The carrier's new service will assist some of the over 4 million Syrian refugees that ...

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