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 ...

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

With stringent lockdowns amid mounting fatalities, he found himself living in one of the areas hardest hit by Covid – the ...

As Pope Francis appoints Cardinal George Koovakad as Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, the Indian-born ...

When Syrian grandfather Omar Kafozi returned to his house near Damascus after Bashar al-Assad's ouster, he saw unfathomable ...

Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, sparking a power struggle with radical preachers backed by new strongman ...

ISLAMABAD, 9th April, 2017 (WAM) -- The President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain, yesterday received the Imam of the Grand Mosque of Makkah, Sheikh Saleh Al Talib. According to ...

ABU DHABI, 27th October, 2015 (WAM) – Estonia's President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, today visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (SZGM), in Abu Dhabi. IIves toured the mosque's halls and was briefed on ...

Damascus: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani said that Qatar welcomes the new Syrian administration's positive moves, and that ...

“You can walk around Damascus now without encountering checkpoints, without having to see pictures of Bashar al-Assad everywhere,” said Bassam al-Kuwatli, president of the Syrian liberal party Ahrar. ...

(Turkish Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP) ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Damascus, Syria, next week after a halt of more than a decade, officials said ...