The long-feared attack happened Tuesday, on Shiism’s holiest day, when simultaneous explosions ripped through crowds of worshippers at Shiite shrines in Baghdad and Karbala, killing at least 143 ...

Meanwhile, the All J&K Shia Association also sought action in a video purportedly showing unknown girls dancing in front of the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar. The video, being shared widely by ...

A CNN investigation sheds light on the massacre of an Alawite community in al-Sanobar, or Pine village, where government-aligned forces subjected largely unarmed villagers to summary executions, ...

Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from oil and toward tourism. Although Western travelers have made headlines in ...

Heads of several mosques, shrines, and imambaras “strongly condemned the house arrest of the Mirwaiz”. Condemning the restriction imposed on Mr. Farooq, Shia cleric Masroor Ansari said ...

Iraq's Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry has dismissed a Sunni academic for inciting sectarian strife after he posted comments online in support of the recent mass killings of Alawites ...

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four ...

Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community have crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan ...