Show portraying life of first Umayyad caliph banned in Iraq over sectarian tension fears and criticised in Egypt over ...

While Morocco and Austria may have been the most recent nations to criminalize the full-face covering, Karbala in Iraq appears to ... to the Prophet. The battle of Karbala in which he died was ...

It would be the battle of Fallujah on steroids ... when coalition forces subdued it during the worst urban warfare of the Iraq war. The Iraq war looms large as an example in more ways than ...

The conflict poses a challenge for the new interim president as he tries to unify Syria and extend his authority over the ...

While a more measured version of "maximum pressure" sanctions has been reintroduced on Iran, Trump has taken pains to show his desire to reach an accord.

The scars of ISIS still linger in Iraq, and the threat of extremism has not vanished. But hope has taken root in the ...

According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad’s prophetic status was well-established among his followers before his death. However ...

An Iraqi man prays on the tomb of an unknown person at a cemetery in the central city of Karbala ... country’s Shia majority. The war between Iran and Iraq was one of the bloodiest of the ...

“We had nobody killed. We found out, after we got back, we were in the biggest tank battle of the whole war.” When he returned to civilian life, he became a financial planner and raised a famil ...

Ukraine and Russia are now three years into what has been called the first drone war: not the first in which they were used, but the first in which they have been a major factor on the battlefield.