Pope Francis has said he was hurt by Turkey’s decision to make Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum a mosque, but Ankara said the decision will maintain a relationship of equality and mutual respect in the country.…

Islamic tools offer a “key” to get out of the economic woes the world is now facing, Turkey’s president said on Sunday. “Over-financing has created a bloated economic model, which acts only over concern about…

Saudi Arabia has installed “advanced self-sterilisation gates” at the entrances of the grand mosques in Makkah and Madinah in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus. According to Saudi24, the move is part…

Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound will be closed to worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus pandemic, Muslim clerics at Islam’s third-holiest site have announced. Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, the Jordan-appointed council…

Outbreak could be worse in Somalia than anywhere else if nothing is done before it spreads, medical experts warn, writes Hamza Mohamed. The coronavirus pandemic could kill more people in Somalia than anywhere else if…

Abdullah al-Mohamed uses a game to help his daughter Salwa cope with the sounds of falling bombs in Syria’s Idlib, writes Farah Najjar Salwa, a three-year-old Syrian girl, has only ever known war. But now,…

Senior EU officials urge Syrian forces to stop Idlib offensive in face of ‘the extraordinary human suffering’, reports Al-Jazeera. The European Union has called for an end to the bombings in northwest Syria and the opening…

By Middle East Monitor and Al Qalam Reporter Nelson Mandela’s grandson has rejected US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Deal of the Century” to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. “We reject the partisan peace plan for the…