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Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani began his first official visit to post-Assad Syria on Friday with a tour of the landmark Umayyad mosque in Damascus. "It's a ...

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At the Umayyad Mosque, I observed a change inside the courtyard: there are now waist-high chains dividing the space into women’s and men’s areas The shop at the museum entrance was selling the ...

while Pope John Paul II became the first pope to visit a mosque, specifically the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, on May 6, 2001. Onoh further recalled that Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand ...

(photo credit: REUTERS/YAMAM AL SHAAR) Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah Al Saud, visited the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

In 2001, he became the first pope ever to enter a mosque, the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, where he called for Christian-Muslim dialogue. That same year, John Paul vocally opposed the association ...

In his first public appearance since fighters entered the Damascus suburbs Saturday, al-Golani visited the sprawling Umayyad Mosque and called Assad's fall “a victory to the Islamic nation.” ...

Jumeirah Mosque is nestled near the shore in one of Dubai's older and most picturesque neighborhoods, Jumeirah 1. Its detailed sand-hued façade – which graces older 500-dirham notes – mimics ...

Before then, however, Xiaomi has teased a brief glimpse at the YU7’s interior—more specifically, an intuitive display that runs across the entire dashboard. We just offered a recap on the ...