Officers say the move aims to instil a sense of morality as they race to fill a security vacuum after dismantling ousted ...

The move to put religion at the center of policing risks seeding new rifts in a diverse country awash with guns after 13 years of civil war and alienating foreign governments they have been trying ...

The Iraqi parliament has passed an amnesty law that could lead to the release of thousands of prisoners, including Iraqis convicted of attacks on U.S. soldiers and people who fought for Islamic State, ...

For Israel, Turkish President Erdoğan might become the next existential threat as he envisions a neo-Ottoman empire.

Assad’s fall in December, prominent Sunni religious leaders returned from exile to counter the dominant Salafist influence, ...

Islamabad: The Pakistan Army has launched a major military operation in the Kurram area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is reported ...

Did the pope endorse a Vatican-style ministate for a Muslim community on Thursday? The press in Albania seems to think so, ...

Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a ...

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh backed Muslim Rashtriya Manch has approached CM Yogi Adityanath for creating a separate waqf ...

Some Syrians and foreign powers have worried that the country's new leaders, who are from the Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir ...

Sayyida Zeinab has been the site of past attacks on Shiite pilgrims by IS — which takes an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and considers Shiites to be infidels. In 2023, a motorcycle ...