The cemetery extends from Bab al-Asbat to the end of the eastern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, reaching the Umayyad palaces area south of the mosque.

Egypt on Monday issued a strong condemnation of calls by Israeli settler groups to bomb the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in ...

The group has now named one of its own, Mohammad al-Bashir, as interim prime minister in a post-war transitional government until March 1. On Friday he addressed worshippers at the Umayyad Mosque.

Israel National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron, in the south of the ...

At the Umayyad Mosque, the rituals were age-old ... The new authorities have made assurances about pluralism. Sheikh Adham al-khatib, a representative of Twelver Shiites in Syria, said many ...

However, the study highlights the significant similarities between Copernicus and Ibn al-Shatir, an engineer, mathematician and astronomer who was the timekeeper for the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus ...

Eid Al Fitr in Syria was charged with newfound ... women and children flocked to pray at Damascus's historic Umayyad Mosque in the Old City. "This is the first time we truly feel the joy of ...

From the shop’s veranda you can sip tea and take in the mosque’s abundant dome, delicate minarets and crenelated walls. It was built by the Umayyad caliph Khaled Ibn al-Walid in a.d. 715 ...