KABUL, Afghanistan — Despite pleas from an outraged world, Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban has destroyed most of the ancient relics from the nation’s pre-Islamic past, including parts of two towering ...

TEHRAN — The advertising on the dry cleaner’s window said much about the conflicted identity of this nation where winged gods and glorious battles of ancient Persian kings are balanced against ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – The Iranian New Year _ or Nowruz, meaning “New Day” _ was marked Tuesday in a rare glimpse at customs stretching back to the country’s pre-Islamic past. The traditions draw from ...

An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, ...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is preserving pre-Islamic heritage sites, like a date palm oasis from the Stone Age, in a break with the austere strain of Sunni Islam that has dominated the country ...