For decades, Lebanon has been torn apart by internal division and external conflict. There may currently be a narrow window ...

Shiite Muslims are commemorating Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith. The rift between Islam’s two main sects ...

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once ...

At the height of its power, Islam once controlled vast territories: from Morocco to China and from Russia down to sub-Saharan Africa. The rise of the European colonial empires, notably those of ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court was set to resume work Monday after nine judges who had tendered their resignations in recent ...

If Hezbollah’s grip on Lebanon finally breaks, it won’t just redraw maps in the Middle East—it could rewrite the calculus of American security, from Beirut to your local gas pump.

Police say a land mine killed four people and wounded others in a remote area in northwest Pakistan. The blast occurred Wednesday when one of the victims stepped on the device in a forested area ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likes to remind his country and the world that in the disorienting first days after ...

Khomeini’s war: Sunni Islamists taught Shia Iran to hate Israel The ayatollahs adopted the Muslim Brotherhood’s worldview to make the destruction of the Jewish state the regime’s holy cause.

Trump’s crazed antics have so far only exacerbated the Gaza and Iran wars, guaranteeing a legacy of hatred that will destabilise the region for decades to come.

The roots of the Iran-Israel standoff lie in the seismic shift of 1979, when the Iranian Revolution overthrew the Shah and birthed a Shia regime with ambitions ...