My mind had drifted to a place that has long captivated both historians and tourists – a city that took forty years to build, the dream project of a ruler: Medina az-Zahara (the city of Zahara), ...

The best example is the construction of the Dome on the Rock, ordered by Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik ... and a combination of Islamic and Byzantine architecture. The Byzantine influence is evident in ...

while Pope John Paul II became the first pope to visit a mosque, specifically the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, on May 6, 2001. Onoh further recalled that Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the Grand ...

When the leader of Syria shook hands with U.S. President Donald Trump, it was a striking moment for a man who was an al-Qaida ...

The longtime religious leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn has left the mosque and now says he intends to open a new mosque in metro Detroit. Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini, who led ...

Sweeping economic relief doesn't include removal of Sharaa's HTS from terror blacklist; some US officials pushed for phased ...

In his first public appearance since fighters entered the Damascus suburbs Saturday, al-Golani visited the sprawling Umayyad Mosque and called Assad's fall “a victory to the Islamic nation.” ...

In 2001, John Paul II became the first pope to enter a mosque-- the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. In 2006, the largest rebel group in Sudan's Darfur region and the government of Sudan signed ...

Police say they’ve arrested a 40-year-old man after three people were stabbed at a mosque in Hamilton. Officers responded to the Hamilton Downtown Mosque around 2:15 p.m. Friday after reports of ...

The victims, aged between 5 and 10, died from severe burns Dubai: A devastating fire tore through a ground-floor apartment attached to a mosque in the Abu Alanda neighbourhood of southern Amman on ...

Italy has handed over to France the man accused of stabbing a young Malian to death in a mosque two weeks ago, a French prosecutor said Friday. Aboubakar Cisse was stabbed dozens of times while ...