Ibn Battuta, was born in Tangier, Morocco, on February 24, 1304. From a statement in his celebrated travel book the Rihla (“legal affairs are my ancestral profession”) he evidently came from an ...

Syria’s Interior Ministry says the sleeper cell behind a deadly church explosion near Damascus belonged to the Islamic State ...

Churches across Syria held funeral services for the victims of the suicide bombing that targeted St. Elias Church in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Sunday.