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

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 ...

Sharaa's choice of Saudi Arabia as the destination of his first foreign visit aimed to deliver blunt messages inside Syria and beyond. This isn’t only about Saudi Arabia being an economic and ...

Julani was born in Saudi Arabia, later lived in Damascus, and joined Al Qaeda before becoming the head of Hayat Tahrir ...

Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and privatising state-run companies ...

After the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians grasp for answers and a path to restoration under new president Ahmed al-Sharaa.

With pills to calm his heart and CCTV monitoring his stairs, one man set out to hold politicians, police and even regime ...

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 UK's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) currently advises against all travel to the country.

Charity should never cost lives, yet time and again it does. Crowds gathering for food distribution in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions often end in tragedy: stampedes, crushes and ...

Syrians chant slogans and wave the Syrian flag as they gather for Friday prayers at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on December 13, 2024 [Leo Correa/AP Photo] It has been more than a month since ...

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 ...