"Our problem is not with Israel. We don't want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel's security," Damascus Governor Maher Marwan tells NPR. Syria and Israel have never had diplomatic ties.

At least four people were killed after a stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital Damascus on Friday.

In a wide-ranging interview with NPR, Governor Maher Marwan, 42, said that Syria's new government did not want to seek conflict with Israel, which has been striking strategic military ...

"Our problem is not with Israel," Maher Marwan, the new governor of Damascus, told NPR on behalf of new Syrian leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani. Following their rapid 11-day takeover of Syria ...

At least three women were killed and five children injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday ...

A stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital on Friday killed three people, the governor of Damascus said.

In a meeting with NPR's Hadeel Al-Salachi, Maher Marwan said it was "natural" that Israel had concerns about the new Syrian government. Newly appointed interim Governor of Damascus Maher Marwan.

Israel’s continued military operations in Syria, which it said on Sunday are intended to “strengthen the defense of Israel’s ...

Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state ...

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DAMASCUS, Jan 10, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A stampede at the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Syria's capital on Friday killed three people ...