Al-Azhar strongly condemned the continued closure by the occupying entity of the gates of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque – the first of the two Qiblas and the third holiest site in Islam – to worshippers ...

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Muslim world Thursday from the Egyptian capital Cairo, which has an Islamic quarter filled with architectural treasures. Following are some facts ...

The grand imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar mosque, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb (R), was welcomed by Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa (L) — Marco BERTORELLO One of the world's leading Islamic clerics on ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's seat of Islamic learning, al-Azhar, will launch a satellite channel to give the world a better understanding of Islam and counter some Islamic outlets preaching "extremist ...