Among the many trips Pope Francis took after he was elected to the papacy in 2013, his historic first visit to the Arabian ...

Pope Francis, 88, was remembered for fostering solidarity among Catholics, people of other faiths including Jews and Muslims, ...

Pope Francis was praised by several regional leaders and churches, including Lebanon's Maronite Church and Iraqi officials, ...

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

The United States will roughly halve the number of troops it has deployed in Syria to less than 1,000 in the coming months, ...

The State Department maintained its "Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory for Syria," citing persistent threats including ...

Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want ...

The Trump administration wants Damascus to crack down on extremists and expel Palestinian militants in return for a limited ...

Like many Syrians, I'd only ever known the country under the rule of Assad and his father Hafez, who had been in power from ...

A BRITISH tourist claims he had a holiday fling with a Taliban terrorist while visiting Afghanistan. Toyosi Osideinde, 30, said they would spend evenings watching Gossip Girl while his lover ...

Is there no waqf board in Muslim countries like Turkey, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Tunisia, and Iraq? Is it ...

The main dome of the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul is to undergo the most extensive restoration in its 1,488-year ...