Author: Mike Nova

present the relationship between Orthodox Christianity and Islam as an example of a unique symbiosis that constitutes a basic foun dation of Russian civilization.

Middle East, the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, encompassing at least the Arabian Peninsula and, by some definitions, Iran, North Africa, and sometimes beyond. Learn more about the history of the classification of the region in this article.

Benjamin Netanyahu (born October 21, 1949, Tel Aviv [now Tel Aviv–Yafo], Israel) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as his country’s prime minister three times (1996–99, 2009–21, and 2022– ) and is the longest-serving prime minister since Israel’s independence.

Over the last thirty years, Russia’s muftiates heavily invested in becoming a national “church for Islam,” an Islamic counterpart of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), that would meet the state’s ideological needs.

Islam is based on belief in the one omnipotent God who created the universe, and who is infinitely loving, compassionate, and just (Qur’an 2:163; 112:1-2). This is what it means when Muslims declare that God is one. This declaration is called tawhid, and it is the foundation of the religion.

The Pentagon is sending additional U.S. troops to the Middle East as tensions continue to rise after Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah killed at least 350 people in Lebanon, Defense Department …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East in response to a sharp spike in violence between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon that has raised the risk of a greater regional war, the Pentagon said Monday. Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, would not say how many more forces …

The five articles gathered here offer glimpses of the diversity of Islam in Russia, and of Islam’s complex interaction with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). We do not look at the core of the offi…