The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) demolished an unauthorised madrasa in Trombay on January 14 and 15. Located in Patil Pada, a locality in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai, the Darool-Uloom ...

This photo taken on Jan. 15, 2025 shows the courtyard of Mustansiriya Madrasah in Baghdad, Iraq. The historical building established in 1227 was once a scholarly complex providing higher education.

(L-R) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Benjamin Netanyahu seen over flags of Turkey and Israel, respectively (illustrative) (photo credit: FLASH90/CANVA, REUTERS, SHUTTERSTOCK) The tumultuous ...

A rebellion by groups close to Turkey ousted Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad last month. Since then, Turkey-backed Syrian forces have occasionally clashed in the north with U.S-backed Kurdish ...

A madrasa manager in Shravasti named Mubarak Ali, also known as Noori, was arrested along with four others for running a counterfeit currency operation. They used a room in the madrasa to print ...

Shravasti superintendent of police (SP) Ghanshyam Chaurasiya stated that the racket was being run from Madrasa Fazr-ul-Nabi near Malhipur mosque. During a raid, the police seized FICN worth ...

In a deal with Islamist parties, Pakistan is abandoning a requirement that religious seminaries, long seen by Western officials as a potential threat, register with the government. By Zia ur ...

Sultan Ahmed I was determined to build a mosque that rivaled the nearby Hagia Sophia, and most would agree that he accomplished this task or, at least, came close. Since the early 1600s, the Blue ...

Turkey under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a key backer of the Syrian opposition since the revolution began in Syria in 2011. On 8 December last year, after 13 years of ...

He became vice-president following the May 2023 general election, which Erdoğan won despite the most vigorous attempt by Turkey’s opposition to unseat him in years. Şimşek is widely ...

In the culmination of its neo-Ottoman expansion strategy across part of its former empire, Turkey has quickly staked its claim in Syria. An unprecedented deployment of spies, diplomats, security ...

Turkey offered to help rebuild the Syrian military shattered by the fall of the long-ruling Assad regime and Israeli airstrikes, potentially filling a void left by Russia's diminishing forces ...