The Canadian government on Wednesday announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of transition.

Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women's rights and freedom of expression during a five-year transitional period, according ...

Umayyad Mosque at sunset – a Christian basilica in a previous life, a Roman temple to Jupiter before that.Credit: iStock For an incurable antiquarian and aspiring epicurean, the old town of ...

Survivors have shared harrowing accounts of the violence, describing scenes of mass executions and widespread destruction.

I went to Halbouni Mosque, near the historic center of Damascus, for Tarawih prayers. The streets were pitch dark, as the city experiences frequent power cuts at night. When I arrived, I found the ...

The Ottoman minaret, which is the standard minaret type in Türkiye and across the Balkans as well as being found in the ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

In 690, however, the caliph ‘Abd al-Malik of the Umayyad Dynasty rebuilt the al-Aqsa Mosque, into a much larger and more stable structure than the mosque ‘Umar had built. ‘Abd al-Malik’s ...

Originally a mosque, the Mezquita-Catedral was converted ... the city was later ruled by the Visigoths and then became the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate and Europe's second-largest city by ...

Al Joulani, the rebel leader who took over Syria, has had a sulphurous career, to say the least. Today, he tries to appear ...

Researcher and author Diana Darke argues that the connections between Islamic and Christian cultures during the medieval period were stronger than commonly believed. This cross-fertilization of ...