In early January, an insidious international radical Islamist movement outlawed in at least a dozen countries was forced to ...

History often speaks of the continuous rise of Islam with the arrival of Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. But Buddhism played a major role in a fa ...

It was founded after Mu'awiyah seized control from Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, and established an empire based around his new capital of Damascus in AD 661. Conquests followed, and by the early ...

The celebrated German composer met Saudi royal court advisor and chairman of the General Entertainment Authority Turki ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site ... IS established the capital of their self-declared “caliphate”.

Only dismantling this theocracy can pave the way for peace, democracy, and liberation from this destructive empire. A member ...

The precious pre-Islamic artifacts destroyed by the jihadists are now in pieces, but the archaeologists working in Nimrud are undaunted by the colossal task they face ...

Even then, it was part of a Caliphate, not an independent state. It became part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1400 C.E. After World War I, Christian Great Britain was given the holy land as ...