Colorful Ortakoy mosque and Bosphorus Bridge in the background. Istanbul is known for its incredible Ottoman-era (and beyond) architecture and that extends to its mosques and other places of worship.

Replacing old mosques with new versions of older Hindu temples – as a number of court cases in India currently aim to do – does not right old wrongs; it perpetrates new ones. Unless the Supreme Court ...

The Kebbi Government on Thursday said it has awarded the contract for the repairs and renovation of 97 mosques across the 21 Local Government Areas of the state. The State Commissioner for ...

NEW YORK, 5th November, 2015 (WAM) -- Prominent figures of the Yemeni community in New York City have expressed their thanks and gratitude to Saudi leaders for their support for Yemen and its people.

Filipino crew members of the Galaxy Leader who were held captive for more than a year in Yemen arrived in Manila on Thursday. The 17 seafarers were welcomed by their family members and Philippine ...

Hans Grundberg, the United Nations special envoy for Yemen, welcomed the “heartwarming” reports that the Houthis had “put an end to the arbitrary detention” of the ship’s crew for 14 months.

United States President Donald Trump has set in motion a process to redesignate Yemen’s Houthis as a “foreign terrorist organisation”, the White House has said. Trump’s executive order ...

President Trump on Wednesday directed his administration to relist the Houthis in Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) in an effort to crack down on the Iranian-backed militant group.

The Houthi rebels in Yemen say they have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader cargo vessel that they confiscated shortly after the start of Israel’s war on Gaza. The Iran-aligned group said in ...

The Houthis have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader 14 months after seizing the vessel off the western coast of Yemen, according to a media report on Wednesday. The Bahamas-flagged vessel ...

GENEVA - Operations at a Red Sea port in Yemen used for aid imports have fallen to about a quarter of its capacity, a UN official said on Tuesday, adding it was not certain that a Gaza ceasefire ...