Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.

The construction of the Umayyad Mosque began in 705 AD by al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik. The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the first mosque in which the mihrab and the apse appeared as ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

The Canadian government on Wednesday announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria during what it called a period of transition.

Survivors have shared harrowing accounts of the violence, describing scenes of mass executions and widespread destruction.

Scholars involved in excavation of Jerash, ancient Gerasa, discovered an Islamic-period mint in the city. Copper coins were issued in both a pre-reform and post-reform series."This seemingly ...

MUSCAT: The National Museum, in partnership with the Sharjah Museums Authority, launched the ‘Masterpieces of Sharjah Museum ...

Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women's rights ...

In 690, however, the caliph ‘Abd al-Malik of the Umayyad Dynasty rebuilt the al-Aqsa Mosque, into a much larger and more stable structure than the mosque ‘Umar had built. ‘Abd al-Malik’s ...

Rebuilding Syria will take years and billions of dollars. The first step is stabilizing the economy and improving the living ...