A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

Mohamed Khairullah crossed the border into Syria and headed straight to the Rawdah Mosque in Aleppo ... As they converged on Damascus on Dec. 8, Assad fled the capital city, boarding a plane ...

After the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians grasp for answers and a path to restoration under new president Ahmed al-Sharaa.

he relationship between a city and literature is reciprocal. The city nourishes the imagination of writers while writers ...

Located in modern-day Turkey, the 13th-century Divrigi Hospital was built alongside a mosque, and the two are ... pharmaceutical container made in Damascus. Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim ...

President Trump has already shaken up the Middle East by suggesting a U.S. takeover of Gaza. More drama could be on the way ...

STOCKHOLM, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Sweden's government on Monday accused a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Stockholm of being a platform for Iranian spying against Sweden and the Iranian diaspora. Sweden's ...

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.

Now, all that remains of Masjid Al Taqwa — the first mosque in the Altadena-Pasadena area — are soot, ash and charred twisted skeletons of chairs. A sign proclaiming the mosque’s name stands ...

The configuration of the mosque, the worshipping place for Muslims, traces its history to the courtyard of the religion's founder. The first mosques were, therefore, simple open spaces marked for ...