(RNS) — Ashura, the 10th day of the first month in the Islamic calendar, falls this year on Saturday (July 5). A sacred day ...

To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling ...

New Delhi, June 22 -- As Iran and Israel edge closer to full-scale war, Arab nations are increasingly caught in the middle. A top UAE official, Anwar Gargash, has publicly called for an "urgent ...

This slim book, a mere 140 small-format pages of text, has heroic aims. Its author wishes not only to disentangle the vicissitudes over two centuries of the wartorn, relatively fertile southwestern ...

A Kuwaiti actress has been arrested on suspicion of drug possession, as part of a nationwide campaign against the use and trafficking of narcotics. Kuwait's Ministry of Interior did not name the ...

On Monday, June 16, the Coldplay singer, 48, was photographed walking in New York City with his 19-year-old son, Moses, two weeks after news of Martin's split from Dakota Johnson, 35, went public.

Martin shares his two kids, Moses and Apple, 21, with ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow. On June 4, PEOPLE confirmed that Martin and Johnson had broken up, ending their nearly eight-year, on-and-off ...