As Iraq prepares for general elections scheduled for later this year, the country’s political scene remains fraught with ...

and narrow Iraq's sectarian rift. "Rebuilding a Shia mosque in the heartland of the Sunni insurgency would have been unthinkable" less than a year ago, says Lt. Col. J. P. McGee, commander of the ...

Lebanon is sending President Joseph Aoun to Rome for the funeral, with Turkey, Iran and other states also dispatching ...

His father was among the most powerful Shiite clerics in Iraq in the late ... bombing of a Shiite mosque in Samarra. Some experts speculate Muqtada’s tacit support for Shia death squads in ...

Western secular leaders and religious patriarchs and prelates attended Pope Francis’ globally televised Vatican state funeral ...

TEHRAN— Consul-generals of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Afghanistan visited ecotourism sites and Radkan Historical Tower in Chenaran county, Khorasan Razavi province, said head of Chenaran Cultural ...

In response these Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates/ UAE and Qatar developed and built modern intelligence and internal security capabilities that have been increasingly ...

He made a daring trip to Iraq amid the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, meeting Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani, the spiritual leader of the world’s Shia Muslims ... at the Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta ...

A group of Shia Muslims from Thailand visited the shrine of Imam Hussain (a.s) in Karbala. During their visit, they toured ...