Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from oil and toward tourism. Although Western travelers have made headlines in ...

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 ...

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.

Iraq's Shia militia were mobilised to launch a counter-offensive against the jihadists. The collapse of Iraq's armed forces in the face of the IS advance led to these militia playing a pivotal ...

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.

Edited by Liam Stack Sunni rebels swarm a Shia mosque near the town of Jisr al-Shughur in this video posted online Wednesday, climbing its roof and chanting religious slogans even as its lower ...