With new high-speed trains complementing old school diesels, Turkey’s once undervalued rail system is enjoying a ...

Her father, Shaikh Ebrahim was imam of the local mosque and sang religious songs ... performing in cities such as Damascus, Baghdad, Beirut, Tunis, and Tripoli, Libya. Later in her career, she ...

The Kadremain Mosque at Baghdad, one of the post beautiful of its kind extant. It is covered with rightly coloured glazed and golden tiles, surrounded by blue domes. The two large domes in the centre ...

a mosque, lecture halls and a spacious courtyard. Its two corner domes and grand entrance door echo the architectural style of the madrassas and mosques of Samarkand and Bukhara from the Middle Ages.

The assassination of Salwan Momika was reportedly caught on video as he hopped on a live-stream moments before being shot ...

The Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque tend to be the first to come to mind when penciling a visit to a mosque into your Istanbul itinerary—but there are plenty of equally impressive and historic ...

Visiting the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque are essential on any Istanbul itinerary—but visiting a mosque for the first time as a non-Muslim can seem a little daunting. You don’t want to commit ...

The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to ...

Car bombs and militant attacks no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad, many young Iraqis say their opportunities remain limited BAGHDAD -- Car bombs and militant attacks are no longer ...

Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial successes in its history on Thursday: sending a rocket to orbit. The debut flight of New ...

He’s been a tech journalist for almost 20 years. The billionaire space race entered a new phase today when Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launched its 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket from ...