The son of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad posted about his family’s final days in Damascus before the rebel takeover ...

President Trump has already shaken up the Middle East by suggesting a U.S. takeover of Gaza. More drama could be on the way ...

Syrians chant slogans and wave the Syrian flag as they gather for Friday prayers at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus ... marking the end of a 13-year-long revolution. This event brought hope to ...

Khaled has been an activist calling for Syrian freedom since 2011 when small protests in the country marked the beginning of the Syrian uprising.

Wednesday's announcements were made at the end of a meeting ... were followed by jubilant demonstrations in Damascus's Umayyad Square, which has become a rallying point since the al-Assad ...

Opposition fighters declared victory and an end to Assad rule ... In the morning, he joined crowds in Umayyad Square, where people rallied in the early days of the pro-democracy uprising and ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

There was a fearful stink in the ministry of information last week when a HTS-Uzbek fighter guarding Damascus’s main Umayyad mosque made some, it would be fair to say, unguarded comments about ...

The swap is the third round of exchanges, as the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas draws to the end of its second week ... Bashar Assad last month. Umayyad Square in the capital, Damascus ...

The Umayyad Caliphate was the second caliphate established after ... the Bering Strait into North America (as shown in this 1775 map). At its height at the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire ...

The Umayyad Mosque in the Old City of Damascus is ... Further reading: How the new Syrian regime seeks to reassure Christians However, the end of their exile is unlikely to change much.

Celebrants gathered in the capital’s main Umayyad Square, amid fireworks and the sounds of ... Tunisians have also regularly gone out in protest against Israel's war on Gaza, demanding an end to the ...