JERUSALEM — At 7 a.m. every weekday, the large green doors of the mosque at the Al-Aqsa compound, usually wide open, close with a bang as Palestinian worshippers shutter themselves inside. Israeli ...

The reopening of the Al-Aqsa Mosque after 40 days of unprecedented closure to Muslim worshippers has provoked heated debate over the future of the holy site, writes Gihan Shahine ...

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Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warns that Israel's restrictions on Muslim access to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound ...