A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

The Umayyad Mosque in the Old City of Damascus is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. (Photo by Vyacheslav ... the regime forced him to flee to Turkey. In an interview upon his ...

Let’s take a look at the largest airports in the world in terms of land mass as they stand at the start of 2025. Part of the airport site. Photo: Shanghai Airport ... The new Istanbul airport stands ...

Picture Caption: Pictured from right with Steven ... which will continue to operate from Turkey, Iraq and Uzbekistan, with the UK, Thailand, India and countries in Africa and Central Asia set ...

If you’re looking to understand the different architectural styles and eras of Istanbul, here are five beautiful mosques to visit once you’ve checked the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque off your list ...

Nestled within Istanbul's historic Fatih district by the Golden Horn, Istanbul University and the Grand Bazaar, Süleymaniye Mosque is considered one of the city's most impressive Ottoman mosques.

The head of the Diyanet, Turkey's religious affairs directorate, on Sunday denounced an Islamophobic attack on a Turkish mosque in Denmark near the German border. "We expect the activities of ...

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

Two years on from a devastating earthquake that shattered Turkey's southern region, nearly half a million people remain in ...

The church was converted to a mosque when Nicosia was taken by the Ottoman Empire in 1570, and minarets were added the same year. It remained the largest mosque in Cyprus until the Hala Sultan ...