Damascus Mosque

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  Jerusalem Policeman Wounded, Attacker Killed: Police

  A knife attack seriously wounded an Israeli border policeman today before fellow officers killed the assailant, police said.

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  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Appears in Public to Mark Eid

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared in public today at a mosque in Damascus to mark the Muslim religious holiday of Eid al-Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice.

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  Syria's Bashar al-Assad Makes Rare Public Appearance for Eid Prayers

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attended holiday prayers at a Damascus mosque today, state media reported, in a rare public appearance for the embattled regime head.

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  Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Rare Public Appearance for Muslim Holiday

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance on today for holiday prayers at a Damascus mosque, state media reported.

• Embattled Syrian President Makes Rare Appearance

  Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance on Saturday by attending prayers for a key Muslim holiday at a mosque in the capital, Damascus, hours after the US-led coalition carried out new airstrikes against Islamic State group militants in Syria.

• Bashar Assad attends prayers in Damascus mosque: Syria TV

  Mortar rounds hit an upscale district of Damascus on Thursday as Syrian state TV broadcast images of President Bashar Assad attending prayers in the capital to mark the start of a Muslim holiday.

• Rebels seize air defense base in southern Syria

  Syrian rebels on Saturday seized a major air defense base in a strategic region of southern Syria near the Jordanian border in the latest battlefield triumph for fighters seeking to topple President Bashar Assad, activists said.

• Damascus mosque blast kills 42 including senior Syrian imam

  An explosion at a mosque in the Syrian capital on Thursday killed at least 42 people, including a senior pro-government Muslim cleric, and wounded 84, the Syrian health ministry said.

• Motorbike bomb attack outside Damascus mosque: State TV

  A motorcycle bomb exploded as worshippers left a mosque after Friday prayers in northern Damascus, wounding several people, Syrian state television said.

• Evidence mounts of new massacre in Syria

  Row upon row of bloodied bodies wrapped in colorful blankets laid out on a mosque floor in a Damascus suburb. Long narrow graves tightly packed with dozens of victims. Nestled among them, two babies were wrapped in a single blood-soaked blanket, a yellow pacifier dangling beside them from a palm frond.

• Syria accused of 'massacre' as hundreds of bodies found

  Several hundred bodies have been found in a town near Damascus after a ferocious assault by the Syrian army, a watchdog said Sunday, as activists accused government forces of a gruesome "massacre". A grisly video issued by opposition militants showed bodies piled up wall-to-wall in a mosque complex in Daraya after a massive offensive by troops bat...

• Syria's Assad makes rare public appearance

  Syrian President Bashar Assad attended prayers in a Damascus mosque to mark the start of a Muslim holiday on Sunday, his first appearance in public since the bombing last month that killed four of his top security officials.

• Nine dead in suicide bomb near Damascus mosque

  A suicide bomber killed nine people including security officers at a Damascus mosque on Friday, Syria's interior ministry said, in another blow to a fraying UN-brokered truce between President Bashar al-Assad and rebels fighting for his downfall.