In Egypt, the regime of former president Hosni Mubarak imposed heavy restrictions on political parties and civil society, but exerted only marginal control over mosques, which were turned into ...

Novelist who spent most of the 1990s in hiding in the UK after receiving death threats over The Satanic Verses was stabbed ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...

As the de facto ruler of Damascus, HTS has attempted to rebrand itself as a moderate group capable of governance, seeking to distance itself from its history of extremism and terrorism. However, Syria ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

Whilst no longer the place for serious conversation, hammams still play an integral part in Turkish culture, with visits to a ...

Heterogeneous Turkey shows influences from the Middle East, Mediterranean, the Balkan peninsula, and Central Asia, but it’s much more than its clichéd image of where East meets West.

Nestled within Istanbul's historic Fatih district by the Golden Horn, Istanbul University and the Grand Bazaar, Süleymaniye Mosque is considered one of the city's most impressive Ottoman mosques.

A 37-year-old man from Turkey was arrested hours later; the Dutch justice minister said it is unclear what… The shocking massacre of 50 people attending Friday prayers at mosques in Christchurch ...

After years of getting bigger, turkey shotguns are now shrinking as small-gauge options attract interest among hunters. That’s just as true in 2025 as it was in ’24, when we saw a raft of new ...

Mosques were once a rare sight in Japan, but no longer. The latest, Masjid Istiqlal Osaka, opened in Osaka’s Nishinari Ward last year. It is housed in a former factory building.

The company finally unveiled the new system in September, outing it as OpenAI’s first “reasoning” model and renaming it “o1.” Much like the two-stage release of GPT-2, where a stripped ...