He allied himself with the notorious leader of ISIS and then broke away just before that group’s fatal decision to declare a caliphate ... them to a Shiite mosque, risking his life.

Mshatta, one of Jordan's largest desert castles and a major Umayyad palace in the Levant, is located around 32 km south of ...

Moawiya is the founder of the Umayyad Caliphate or the Umayyad Empire which ruled from 661 to 750 with its borders stretching from Central Asia in the East and North Africa in the west.

Indonesia boasts the world’s biggest Muslim population. Plenty of Japanese use the mosque to pray, officials said. “We hope to make this mosque a place that all Muslims feel free to visit ...