Makkah, June 18, 2025, SPA -- The General Authority for the Care of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque has urged visitors to the Grand Mosque to adhere to health precautionary ...

Madinah, June 19, 2025, SPA -- Over 3,000 male and female workers clean the Prophet’s Mosque around the clock as part of the comprehensive plans and programs managed by the General Authority for the ...

A lone minaret is a striking symbol in the Yomra district of Trabzon, northeastern Türkiye, years after the mosque it belonged to was demolished due to unstable ground. The Ikisu Neighborhood Central ...

UPDATED: June 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM EDT A BMW driver has been arrested after a four-month investigation for fatally striking a 75-year-old Bronx man walking home from mosque, police said Thursday.

(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan has reached an agreement with China to construct three cold storages in capital Kabul and northern Balkh provinces, the Ministry of ...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli police reopened three gates of the Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday after keeping it closed since last Friday, amid widespread calls to intensify Palestinian presence in ...

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned?

Girls play in a 2021 chess competition in Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of the northern Balkh province, Afghanistan. Girls and women had been encouraged to learn the game — until the Taliban took ...

Chess in Afghanistan isn't madly followed like cricket or the national game — buzkashi — a polo-like sport, except the jockeys have whips and they have to dash across a field holding the carcass of a ...

Girls play in a 2021 chess competition in Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of the northern Balkh province, Afghanistan. Girls and women had been encouraged to learn the game — until the Taliban took power and ...

A recent French government report warns that the Muslim Brotherhood is pushing a fundamentalist agenda across Europe. The group uses mosques, schools and lobbying to gain influence and weaken secular ...

Montreal police have stepped up surveillance around mosques and synagogues in response to the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran. For synagogues, heightened surveillance is around mornings ...