JERUSALEM — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al Aqsa ...

Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers prayed peacefully at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan despite fears of unrest due to tensions over Gaza.

The history of the Temple Mount is one of perpetual friction. It was the site of Solomon’s first Temple, later destroyed by ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP/Reuters) — Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had little to celebrate on Sunday as they began ...

The controversy over the relocation of a Hindu temple to make way for a mosque in central Kuala Lumpur has escalated with the arrest of a firebrand Muslim preacher for apparent seditious social ...

Israel is stepping up security measures ahead of the first Friday prayers of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem due to concerns over violence, the police said on Thursday. Around ...

The Al-Aqsa lies at the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City on a hill known to Jews as Har ha-Bayit, or Temple Mount, and to Muslims internationally as al-Haram al-Sharif, or The Noble Sanctuary. Muslims ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People gathered for communal prayers in the shattered concrete husk of Gaza City’s Imam Shafi’i Mosque ...

Overcome by a restless feeling that I needed to be doing more, I made my way one dismal afternoon to a retail outlet in Jerusalem that I enjoy going to. Perhaps I was looking for some normalcy ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On a sunny and crisp Jerusalem winter day, a moderate crowd of vendors with old-fashioned trolleys, women wearing ...