Palestinians walking past the Dome of the Rock at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday. (Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) The golden domed Al Aqsa Mosque sits in the heart of ...

JERUSALEM – The Muslim holy month of Ramadan arrived Monday with no news of a cease-fire in Gaza, raising further concerns about tensions spreading to Jerusalem, where the Al-Aqsa mosque sits at ...

The Dome of the Rock lies in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a holy site for Muslims and a national symbol for Palestinians. Ultranationalist Jews have increased their attempts to pray on the site in ...

In 2014, Daesh hoisted its flag at the top of Al-Nouri Mosque, and the group’s leader proclaimed a ‘new caliphate’ from its prayer hall. During the group’s retreat in 2017, it detonated a series of ...

The Palestinian government has expressed “extreme concern” over threats circulating among Israeli settler organisations to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ...

April 5 (Reuters) - A Israeli police raid on Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque on Wednesday has triggered a furious reaction from Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and the wider Arab and Muslim ...

Israeli police stormed the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, firing stun grenades at Palestinian worshippers in a move that drew widespread international criticism and raised tensions as ...

Jordan has warned of “catastrophic consequences” if Israeli forces were to storm the al-Aqsa mosque again. Should the Israeli police, “assault worshipers again, in an attempt to empty [the ...

Image Renovating windows and ceiling inside the Dome of the Rock in Al Aqsa Mosque compound.Credit...Afif Amireh for The New York Times Broken stained-glass windows line the top of the Qibli ...

JERUSALEM — Violence resumed for a second straight night in Jerusalem on Wednesday when Palestinian worshippers barricaded themselves inside Al-Aqsa Mosque at the Old City’s sensitive compound ...

Israeli police stormed the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, one of Islam’s holiest sites, for the second time on Wednesday, hours after they first raided the compound and arrested hundreds of ...