DAMASCUS, 25 February (BelTA - SANA) - The Great Mosque of Bani Umayyah in Damascus is considered the fourth most famous Islamic mosque, one of the most luxurious Islamic mosques, and one of the ...

Four people were killed and sixteen injured in a crush at Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital Damascus on Friday, Damascus Health Director Dr Mohammed Akram Maatouq told the state-run Sana news agency.

ALBAWABA - The restoration of the Damascus Sword monument in Umayyad Square has become a topic of heated debate in Syria after authorities announced the completion of repair work following damage ...

Flowers fell from a Syrian army helicopter on Saturday, strewn over Damascus alongside scraps of paper with messages of ...

Damascus-SANA-When you visit Damascene houses ... The origins of the craft: It appeared in the Umayyad era, where craftsmen designed geometric shapes of a straight line, a circle, and a triangle.

In the early sixties, Syrian artists made a monument of the Damascene Sword in the Umayyad Square in central Damascus as a symbol of the power of the city. The monument had two large contrasting ...

“Bashar al-Assad spread sectarianism, and today our country belongs to us all,” he told followers at the Umayyad Mosque in central Damascus.

The demonstration in Damascus’s Umayyad Square is the first in the capital after years of repression under Assad, during which the square was the sole preserve of the ousted president’s ...

A Syrian army helicopter throws flowers and confetti on a group of demonstrators marking the 14th anniversary of the start of the uprising against Bashar Assad's regime in March 2011, in Umayyad ...