US military actions in Iraq and Syria left ancient heritage sites in ruins, museums looted, and historic cities bombed, all while oil infrastructures were protected ...

Ibn Battuta, was born in Tangier, Morocco, on February 24, 1304. From a statement in his celebrated travel book the Rihla (“legal affairs are my ancestral profession”) he evidently came from an ...

Over the centuries, rulers and believers preserved and expanded the mosque. From the early Umayyad renovations to modern Saudi enhancements, Quba has retained its spiritual core while embracing ...

One of its finest is the exquisite Tareq Rajab Museum of Islamic Calligraphy, which is only a ten-minute cab ride from the City to Jabriya, and well-worth the trip to see its sizeable collection of ...

The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest continuously used religious sites in the world. The mosque we see today was built in 705 CE by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid on top of a ...

The Union asserted that what happened in the Great Umayyad Mosque is part of the repeated attacks on Islamic Sanctities according to a methodical plan by Israel and its protector the United States.

Korean officials discovered the painting in the Smart Museum’s collection at the University of Chicago. It was stolen from a temple nearly 35 years ago.

A crystal-covered chair inspired by one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings was seriously damaged when a tourist sat on it while posing for a photograph, according to the Italian museum ...

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.” ...