The Umayyad Mosque in the Old City of Damascus is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. (Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0) A video has circulated widely on Syrian networks ...

"Bias and bigotry have no place in a society striving for inclusivity and mutual respect." HONOLULU, Jan. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a rare demonstration of unity, religious leaders representing ...

Fidan is scheduled to meet with senior Iraqi officials, including Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani, Speaker of the Iraqi House of Representatives ...

There's a sense here that Israeli strikes did not just target Hezbollah's leadership and fighters, but also its Shia constituency ... including three mosques and a school. MONA FAWAZ: The Israeli ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Here are the key developments on the 1,063rd day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian servicemen of 24th Mechanized Brigade train for battle near the front line in the country's ...

Ukraine launched a lightning thrust into the Russian oblast of Kursk last August, taking Russian border guards by surprise. The government in Kyiv made it clear at the time that it had no ...

Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said she believes there'll be a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine this year. "I'm pretty sure there will be a peace agreement this year," said ...

President Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “destroying Russia” with its nearly three-year war in Ukraine, adding he hopes the Kremlin leader is open to making a deal to end the ...

It is, Darwin reckons, one of the main reasons – greater perhaps than Russia’s manpower advantage – that Ukraine is on the back foot not just around the embattled town of Kupiansk but along ...

Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,063. Kyiv region. A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine's capital on the morning of January 18 killed three people and wounded three others. Rescuers work at ...