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Four dead after crowd crush at Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
"An unfortunate incident occurred today in the Great Umayyad Mosque as a result of a stampede during a civil event held in and around the mosque," Governor Maher Marwan told the state-run Sana ...
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This Ramadan, Relief and Hope Bump against Uncertainty in the New Syria
Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her ...
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Minarets of Umayyad Mosque …Architecture masterpieces which rise up in Damascus sky
DAMASCUS, 25 February (BelTA - SANA) - The Great Mosque of Bani Umayyah in ... The construction of the Umayyad Mosque began in 705 AD by al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik. The Umayyad Mosque is also ...
This Ramadan relief hope bump against violence uncertainty in new Syria
But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her country's first Ramadan after the end of the Assad family's iron-fisted rule, she felt something new, something priceless: A sense of ease.