Thousands of Shiite pilgrims marched towards Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine in Baghdad, reflecting a deep sense of ...

Thousands of Shiite pilgrims are marching in Iraq dressed in black, heading on foot toward the golden twin-domed shrine of ...

In Kurram, rival tribes have clashed over competing narratives, claims of victimhood, and accusations of foreign interference ...

Iraq's parliament has passed a controversial set of amendments to its civil status law, effectively legalising child marriage for girls as young as nine. The new legislation allows unregistered ...

Iraq's parliament has passed an amnesty law that could lead to the release of thousands of prisoners, including those who fought for the extremist IS group ...

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

Iraq's parliament passed into law on Tuesday a revised bill that had sparked outrage over fears it rolled back women's rights and permitted underage marriage.

It begins by acknowledging the fundamental problem of the area is jihadism, whether of the Iranian Shi’ite variety or the Muslim Brotherhood Sunni variation, with all its permutations ranging from ...

The Sayyida Zeinab shrine, which has previously been targeted by IS militants, holds significant religious importance for Shiite Muslims ... al-Sham (HTS), the Sunni Islamist group now in control ...

Sayyida Zeinab, a key site for Shiite pilgrims, has previously been targeted by ISIS, which follows a strict interpretation of Sunni Islam and regards Shiites as infidels. In 2016, at least 45 ...

Syria's new government says it successfully foiled a plan by ISIS to detonate a bomb at a Shiite shrine in Sayyida Zeinab, a suburb of Damascus. Members of the cell arrested.

Show Full Article Some Syrians and foreign powers have worried that the country’s new leaders, who are from the Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that forced Assad out on Dec. 8, may ...