Many Yuan monuments remain, including Beijing’s Drum Tower and Bell Tower, pictured here. The Umayyad Caliphate was the second caliphate established after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, and an ...

Gaziantep carpet makers in southeastern Türkiye have started working to renovate the carpets of the historical Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. After the fall of the Assad regime, as life begins to ...

Hopes are rising that, with the support of the United Nations, the architects of the brutal former regime of Bashar al Assad in Syria will eventually be held accountable for their crimes. For years, ...