A multimillion-dollar Saudi television production portraying the life of an early Islamic ruler has caused controversy in the ...

On the eve of the 1987 hajj pilgrimage, around 400 people were killed in the clashes between mostly Iranian Shia pilgrims, ...

AI machine serves the faithful in several languages via integrated database A worshipper approaches the Manara robot introduced in the Grand Mosque. Supplied Cairo: A sophisticated robot has been ...

Beyond the availability of Zamzam water, the Grand Mosque has been outfitted with fully equipped ablution facilities at key locations, including the King Fahd expansion area—accessible via escal ...

"What's quite unique to Iran is that Iran retained its civilization and its language, while other languages made way for ...

Since taking political power in 1979, Iran’s Shia clergy has been supporting the Shia Muslims of Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. This spreading influence has caused concern to the Sunni rulers of Arab ...

Manama, Mar. 9 (BNA): Following the directive of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, to open, renovate, and restore 40 mosques under the Sunni ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said calls for negotiations by “bully states” are aimed at dominating others, not resolving issues, after US President Donald Trump urged him ...

The Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shia Islam, and it once formed ... Russia and Iran. Syria's new interim government is under Sunni Islamist rule. Interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, a former ...