Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric indicates the kingdom is "using execution to settle political scores", rights group Amnesty...
Terrified families waved white flags as they emerged from homes reduced to rubble in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, where government troops were still battling...
Iraqi forces swept the devastated streets of Ramadi for bombs Monday, after recapturing the city they lost in May and clinching a major victory against ISIS.
Iraq's top Shi'ite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for the release of a group of Qatari hunters kidnapped in the south of the country, his...
A Kenyan man has been charged with receiving Iranian training in Iraq to carry out attacks in the east African country.
Millions of pilgrims gathered in Iraq's holy city of Karbala amid tight security on Wednesday to mark Arbaeen, the annual commemoration of the end of the...
Millions of pilgrims gathered in Iraq’s holy city of Karbala amid tight security Wednesday to mark Arbaeen, the annual commemoration of the end of the 40-day...
Since the founding of the United Nations, the right of safe passage for pilgrims traveling to foreign lands has been considered sacred.
Iraq’s military command has told civilians in the ISIS-held Ramadi to leave the city, a sign that an operation may soon be underway to retake the provincial...
mass of Iranian pilgrims heading to Iraq for religious rites broke down fences and injured border guards in a stampede, the interior ministry said Monday,...
A suicide bomber on Friday blew himself up among crowds at a Shiite Muslim procession outside the north Nigerian city of Kano, in the latest violence to hit...
Bomb attacks on a Shiite mosque and elsewhere in southern Baghdad killed at least 15 people Friday as a top religious official urged unity among Iraqis in the...
Iran's army conducted exercises Tuesday close to its border with Afghanistan designed to simulate how it would respond if "terrorist groups" such as the ISIS...
A top Iranian army commander said Monday that his troops would take "decisive" action if ISIS militants come within 40 kilometers of its borders with Iraq and...
A cholera outbreak in Iraq has spread to Kuwait and Bahrain, and risks turning into a regionwide epidemic as millions of pilgrims prepare to visit the...
A suicide bomber killed seven people, including two police, in an attack on a Shiite Muslim procession Monday in a northern Baghdad neighborhood, police and...
A suicide bomb claimed by ISIS killed at least seven people, including two police, when it exploded on Monday near a Shiite Muslim procession in a northern...
Huge crowds of black-clad Shiite faithful massed in the Iraqi city of Karbala Saturday, crying and beating their chests to commemorate the prophet's grandson,...
Tens of thousands of Shiites took part in mass marches across Lebanon Saturday for annual Ashura processions to mourn the death Imam Hussein, a grandson of...
The death toll from a suspected suicide blast which targeted Shiite Muslims in the southern Pakistani city of Jacobabad has risen to 24, a provincial minister...