Barely arriving on Syrian lands, on the evening of Monday July 6, Emmanuel Macron visited, with his Syrian counterpart Ahmed Al Charaa, the famous Umayyad mosque in Damascus. For this historic visit (it is the first visit by a head of state from a Western power to Syria since the fall of the regime of Bashar Al Assad, overthrown in December 2024), the two presidents went to the prayer room of one of the most famous mosques in the Islamic world to see a giant edition of the Koran and sign a guest book.
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