When a syrian named abd al-Rahman arrived in Spain in 755, a booming Islamic empire stretched from Asia Minor to the Pyrenees. But this member of a leading Damascus family, the Umayyads, was not after ...

The historic town of Jumilla was on the frontline of conflict between Muslims and Christians when the Moors were kicked out of southern Spain in the 13th century. Muslim migrants may have felt more ...

08:18, Thu, Aug 7, 2025 Updated: 09:50, Thu, Aug 7, 2025 A decision to ban Islamic festivals in public has sparked uproar over discrimination and Islamophobia in a major region in Spain. Jumilla ...

Spain's leftist government on Monday ordered a town to scrap its plan to ban Islamic festivals, declaring the move 'racist'. It comes after the town council of Jumilla, in the southeastern region of ...

History has a way of echoing over the ages, if one listens carefully enough. Imagine a society torn apart by warring factions, none of them particularly moral, most of them brutal and self-interested.