For years Iran has sponsored terror and rebel groups in the region, including Hamas and Hezbollah. In return, Israel has struck at Iranian leadership, most recently killing two se ...

The Iranian foreign minister’s visit to Cairo may be the latest sign of warming ties, but the path to a genuine rapprochement ...

The leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch has threatened both President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the Israel-Hamas war ...

Gaza and Ukraine have taken all the airtime in global conflicts, but there are many others. Myanmar, formerly Burma, is in a ...

Qaida’s Yemen branch has threatened both U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk over the Israel-Hamas war in ...

WASSIT/ Aswat al-Iraq: Premier Nouri al-Maliki described the Shiite-Sunni conflict as "incitement made abroad", complaining that his governments' achievements are met with "negligence". 16 November ...

His death exacerbated the schism between Islam’s two main sects, Sunni and Shiite, and is mourned annually by Shiites. Zeinab's burial place is disputed; some Muslims believe it’s elsewhere.

During Syria’s civil war, protecting the revered Sayyida Zeinab shrine was a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and groups from beyond the country’s borders backing then-President Bashar Assad.

At the time, the shrine's protection from Sunni extremists became a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and Iran-backed groups from beyond Syria's borders who backed the former government of ...