The battle between Iran’s Safavid Shia Empire and the Sunni Ottoman Empire ended in an Ottoman victory. In this event, Gholamreza Gholizadeh, a lay Shia eulogist, referred to Azerbaijani ...

"Open to all, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the participatory performance will be live-streamed continuously for four years, or the duration of the presidency. In this way, the mantra "HE WILL ...

King Charles held an audience with Iraq's prime minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani at Buckingham Palace today, as the royal returns to work amid ongoing cancer treatment. The monarch, 76 ...

20 address. The Middle East Forum, a conservative nonprofit focused on Islamic issues, has described Al-Husainy as “a radical anti-Semitic, pro-Hezbollah Shia imam” with “a significant histo ...

A key Iranian proxy is found among the Iraqi Shia, who have a history with Iran that goes back to the Saddam Hussein era but whose full value to Tehran only started to be realized after the 2003 US ...

Syrian authorities have foiled an attempt by ISIL (ISIS) fighters to blow up a revered Shia shrine in a Damascus suburb, state news agency SANA has reported. Intelligence and security forces ...

The conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims remains one of the central features shaping the political and religious dynamics of the Middle East. Rooted in Islamic history since the 7th century ...

According to the report, the new Sunni rulers of the country are seeking to take down the former Assadites, and the Alawites - a Shia Muslim minority group, of which Assad was a member - fear ...

An interview on this topic was published on the state website Zerkalo.az by Khazar University history and philosophy scholar Sabukhi Akhmedov, one of the main proponents of the Safavid thesis as a ...