📜 History of Saladin & the 3rd Crusade: The Third Crusade - Saladin had just taken Jerusalem which meant that it wouldn't be long before a Crusade was called. He had some time to prepare thanks ...

Morning Edition host Leila Fadel reports from Damascus, in the first week in a half-century that the Assad family did not rule the country.

Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, took Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, prompting Europeans to raise an army to recapture the city. Try as they might, and though led by famed Richard the Lionhearted ...

For almost three centuries (800-1100) Arab civilization, the most advanced of the time (barring China), had considered itself virtually impregnable. Europeans had to learn Arabic to acquire the ...

The German leader, Kaiser Wilhelm II, ordered a wreath laid at Saladin’s tomb in Damascus. Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser used some of Saladin’s symbology in his pan-Arab campaign.

Some researchers say Saladin most likely bestowed the guardianship upon the two families in order to assert Muslim dominance over Christianity in the city.

The question of whether the Moroccan Almohad Sultan Yaqub al-Mansur provided military support to Salah al-Din al-Ayoubi (Saladin) in his battles against the Crusaders during the 12th century has ...

"I last went to Saladin's tomb three weeks ago," Massoud says. "Before the making of the film, I read everything about him. Then I went to his tomb many times - to get the 'spirit' of the man." ...

According to a source in the Saladin police, security forces surrounded on January 22 Saddam Hussein’s tomb, which is located in the late president’s hometown al-Awja, and prevented people ...

Syria was split into Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, and in July 1920, General Henri Gouraud entered Damascus and walked up to Saladin's tomb and according to Reston, uttered these words that evoked the ...

They can dance in the streets to songs that curse the Assad family. And I want to talk to you about Friday prayers at this historic Ummayed Mosque in the old city where there's the Saladin tomb.