Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for its people after those nations backed autocratic President ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...

The former rebel stronghold of Jobar points to the challenges facing the new government as it embarks on rebuilding a broken country.

Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In ...

The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday meetings he had with Syria's new ...

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 ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and privatising state-run companies ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Colorful Ortakoy mosque and Bosphorus Bridge in the background. Istanbul is known for its incredible Ottoman-era (and beyond) architecture and that extends to its mosques and other places of worship.

Momika who had lived in Sweden since 2018, sparked outrage among Muslims across the world when he set a Koran on fire outside Stockholm's main mosque in June 2023. Speaking to newspaper ...

Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency Momika made international headlines when he tore up and burnt a Koran outside Stockholm’s main mosque in 2023, claiming the holy text was a “danger to democratic ...