ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - The remains of the medieval Umayyad Mosque's felled minaret lie in its once-elegant courtyard along with discarded mattresses, fragments of rockets and antique doors, but, ...

Sheikh Muhammad Al-Yaquobi, former preacher of the Grand Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, leads funeral prayers for Peter Kassig in the mosque at Al-Huda Foundation in Fishers, Ind., Friday, Nov. 21, 2014.

21 August 2006 AMMAN -- The discovery of a centuries-old mosque in the heart of the Roman ruins of Jerash is shedding new light on the city's history and the early relations between Muslims and ...

Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi was once the Imam at the Grand Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. That was before he was forced to flee the country after speaking out against the Assad regime. Shaykh Muhammad ...

The United Nations’ Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is warning that Syria’s rich cultural heritage is being devastated by the country’s civil war, which is now in its third ...