On a wintry night in Damascus, hundreds of people packed into a courtyard in the Old City, dancing and singing during a ...

For nearly half a century, the Alimuddin Chishti Mazar in Narayanganj’s Rupganj was alive with devotion and music. Every ...

It was a small act of teenage defiance that sparked a revolution, a moment forever inscribed in Syrian history.

The spread of Ultimate Frisbee testifies to a kind of Western soft power in the Middle East, one far friendlier than bombs or ...

Mushin Hendricks, who is believed to be the world’s first openly gay imam, was shot dead over the weekend in what appears to ...

For a religion that preaches the transience of all things, the ever shifting sands of China's western deserts might seem the ...

Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written Germanic languages and who inscribed it.