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.

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.

This photo taken on March 17, 2025 shows the reconstruction site of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its al-Hadbaa minaret in the old city of Mosul, Iraq. The Grand al-Nuri Mosque was built in 1172 ...

Shia militias in Iraq have kidnapped and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months, a report by campaign group Amnesty International has said. The killings were in apparent revenge for ...

Pope Francis today held a historic meeting with the top Shia Islam cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on day two of his landmark visit to Iraq. The 84-year-old, who defied security fears and ...

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 ...