a branch of Shia Islam. Saturday’s private ceremony at the Ismaili community centre in Lisbon was attended by more than 300 ...

Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak recently stated that Moscow and Tehran are working on the establishment of an ...

To many journalists, His Highness the Aga Khan, was the father and high patron of Kenyan and East African journalism.

Qatar's President Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani made the first official visit to Syria after the interim government was ...

Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shia cleric and his sister during Saddam ...

Its population is almost evenly split between Christians, Sunni Muslims, and Shia Muslims, while around 4.5% of citizens identify as Druze. And making the country work despite its divisions has ...

It also follows a visit by Qatar's prime minister this month. The emir "stressed the urgent need to form a government representing all spectrums" of Syrian society in order "to consolidate ...

Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, promised Thursday to hold a "national dialogue conference" in his first address to the nation since the fall of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad. Sharaa ...

The new law will require a Muslim couple to choose either the Sunni or Shia sect when concluding a marriage contract. They can then choose that sect to represent them in "all matters of personal ...

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani was speaking at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, two days after the ceasefire that Qatar helped ...

The main road connecting Parachinar, which has become a battleground between Shia and Sunni Muslims, has also been closed for the past three months. In fact, there has been a history of heavy ...

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani visited Washington to sign economic agreements aimed at broadening Iraq-U.S. cooperation. Despite the defeat of ISIS, ongoing threats from remnants ...