With its wide boulevards and tree-lined neighborhoods, Homs bustled with business, an oil refinery, and agricultural production. Sunni and Alawite Muslims, Orthodox and Catholic Christians—diverse ...

Islamic extremists like Hamas believe the Quran calls them to subjugate or kill non-Muslims, and to bring the entire world to ...

GAZA is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

Syria’s Islamist leaders pledged to respect religious freedom despite their radical past. Many Christians and Shiites are ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

If you’re looking to understand the different architectural styles and eras of Istanbul, here are five beautiful mosques to ...

The devastation caused by Israeli attacks has resulted in the destruction of nearly 1,000 mosques in Gaza. In response to this crisis, Indonesia, the world’s largest Islamic country, has ...

Mosque administrator Ahmed Hassain gave evidence that between 2,000 and 2,500 people normally came to Clonskeagh to mark the end of Ramadan – but that 2023 was "exceptionally large", quoting an ...

Special prayers were held at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in memory of Muhammad Deif, the former commander of Hamas's military department, and other senior Hamas figures who were eliminated in the war.

The father of a disabled boy who claimed he was humiliated by being ejected from the grounds of Ireland’s biggest mosque by a garda during a row over parking during a religious festival has ...