The U.S. military on Thursday destroyed a mosque in eastern Syria, saying the house of worship was a center of Daesh terrorist operations in the area. The strike was conducted under Operation ...

Written in graffiti across the mosque wall is a sad plea for calm: "No and a thousand no's to sectarian strife." Beginning as an Arab Spring protest movement, Syria's civil war has taken on a ...

The mosque, one of the world's oldest dating back some 1,200 years, is a beloved symbol of Syria, and sermons there like all mosque sermons across Syria were tightly controlled under Assad's rule.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani visits the eighth-century Umayyad Mosque in the old city of ... his first official visit to post-Assad Syria on Friday with a tour of the landmark Umayyad ...