Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

There are texts for each of the four surviving schools of Sunni law, but no Shi'i text available in translation. Ibn Baz, Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah et. al. Islamic Fatawa Regarding Women: Shariah ...

Syria kept a central role for Islamic law in a constitutional declaration issued on Thursday which guarantees women's rights ...

Witnesses and a war monitor reported the killing of hundreds of civilians in villages where most of the population are ...

While the main responsibility of Sunni Caliphs was to maintain law and order in the Muslim realm, as descendants of the Prophet, Shia Imams (spiritual leaders) also provided religious guidance and ...

Iraq’s justice ministry said on Sunday it has begun releasing some of the 67,000 detainees in Iraqi prisons after a recently ...

The Iraqi government has withdrawn the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Retirement Law from Parliament, pending amendments ...

his cousin and son-in-law and father of his grandchildren. The Sunni majority got its way, as Abu Bakr became the first Muslim caliph and successor of the prophet. Although the divide was at first ...

conservative Sunni teachings known as Wahhabism and strict Islamic Shariah law present in all aspects of life. #1 in Religious Saudi Arabia is the giant of the Middle East, with both the vast ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

"No one is above the law, the committee will relay all the results ... from fighters aligned with the ousted Assad regime. The Sunni Islamist-led government poured reinforcements into the area ...