Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from oil and toward tourism. Although Western travelers have made headlines in once-dangerous Iraq of late, it's probably Arab tourists who will boost business ...

when al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi attempted to drag Iraq into a sectarian civil war between Sunnis and Shia by running death squads and attacking Shia mosques, markets, neighborhoods, and ...

Shia militias in Iraq have kidnapped and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months, a report by campaign group Amnesty International has said. The killings were in apparent revenge for ...

Since taking political power in 1979, Iran’s Shia clergy has been supporting the Shia Muslims of Iraq, Lebanon and Syria ... Muslims in the UK and the mosque has a central role in Islam.

NAJAF, Iraq - When Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited this holy city last month in search of support for his reform programme, only three of the four senior Shia clerics agreed to meet him.