Several Muslims worshippers came out to offer the prayers with black ribbons tied to their right arm as a mark of protest ...

A high-profile leader of ISIS, described as one of the world’s “most dangerous men,” was killed in a US air strike Friday. The terror group’s second in ...

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq ... victories over the forces of darkness and terrorism,” Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement posted on X ...

Iraqi PM says Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai was Islamic State's deputy caliph, 'one of the most dangerous terrorists in the ...

Backgrounder: Some experts say a "Shiite crescent" holds the potential to transform Islamic politics in the ... Vali Nasr writes in his new book, The Shia Revival, that war in Iraq will not ...

The culmination of Monster Hunter Wilds is at the hands of Zoh Shia. This monster is the definition of a final boss, and a fitting end to the Low Rank section of Capcom’s latest entry in the ...

The Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam, played a central role in Assad’s power structure, benefiting from political and military influence for over five decades. With Assad’s ousting ...

Deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is also an Alawite. Who are the Alawites? The sect has its roots in Shia Islam. The word Alawite means “follower of Ali,” the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet ...

Alawites are an Arab ethnic and religious group, with distinct cultures, languages and religious beliefs. They live mainly in the Levant region in West Asia. Pramode Mallik Updated : Mar 10, 2025, ...

The issue has since been raised to the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), which started a campaign to demand a public apology from U of T’s Faculty of Law. Titled “Antisemitism: From Its ...

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

Alawites are an offshoot sect of Shia Islam and make up around 10 per cent of the population in Syria, a country with a majority of Sunni Muslims. Historically, the Alawites have been concentrated in ...