Thousands of jubilant Syrians converged on Damascus's landmark Umayyad Mosque for Friday prayers ... expressing support for a state based on Islamic teachings. Thousands flocked to the nearby ...

Pope John Paul II has become the first Pontiff to enter a mosque during his groundbreaking pilgrimage to Syria. The country's top Muslim clerics are escorting the Pope through Damascus' Omayyad Mosque ...

The U.S. State Department said in a travel warning that possible attacks could target embassies, international organizations and Syrian public institutions in the capital, Damascus. The Islamic ...

The reports emerged on April 21 as rumors that Damascus had detained members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. PIJ is backed by Iran and was involved in the October 7 attack. It has forces in Gaza and ...

Hundreds of Muslim worshippers are feared to be among the more than 1,600 people who died in a powerful earthquake which struck central Myanmar when they had gathered at mosques for prayers during ...

Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday appointed Osama al-Rifai, a moderate Muslim cleric known for having opposed now ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad, as the country's grand mufti.

Supplied Cairo: More than 122 million faithful flocked to Islam's two holiest mosques in Saudi Arabia during the Islamic sacred month of Ramadan that ended in the kingdom on Saturday, a Saudi ...