At least three women were killed, and five children suffered severe fractures, bruises, and fainting during a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday afternoon.

At least three women were killed and five children injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian civil defence said. The children suffered fractures ...

View outside Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. Since Sharaa's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group swept Bashar al-Assad from power, its bureaucrats - who until last week were running an Islamist administration ...

Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, ...

There people were killed in a crush at Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital Damascus on Friday, the governor of the city said. "An unfortunate incident occurred today in the Great Umayyad Mosque as a ...

Three women were killed and several injured, including five children, in a stampede at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus Friday, the Syrian civil defense force known as the White Helmets said in a ...

But Syria is not yet prepared for large-scale returns. Host countries must wait until returns can be safe, dignified and ...

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 ...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani met Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus Friday, state media said, in the ...

Now, fighters and civilians gathered to listen, many stepping inside the sweeping mosque for the ... of the ousted autocrat. At Damascus’s biggest roundabout, Umayyad Square, where thousands ...

Show more Show less Fireworks erupt above people celebrating the ouster of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad at Umayyad Square ... at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus since Assad's ouster ...