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.

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 ...

describing him as "one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world." Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rufay'i, also known as Abu Khadija, had been ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in ... and terrorism,” Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement posted on X, formerly ...