President Hafez al-Assad (praying) next to Fahd of Saudi Arabia and King Faysal, at the Umayyad Mosque

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President Hafez al-Assad (praying) next to Fahd of Saudi Arabia (then prince) and King Faysal, at the Grand Umayyad Mosque in Damascus in the mid-1980s. Standing in the back row are Defense Minister Mustapha Tlas, and seated is Syria’s Grand Mufti Ahmad Kaftaro.

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