A report issued this week by the United Nations Sanctions Monitoring Team, based on U.N. member state intelligence, said there is “growing confidence” that the IS caliph is Abdul Qadir Mumin ...

She looked so regal the entire night.” Thus said Marin Elizabeth Trepagnier about the 2025 queen of the Caliphs of Cairo, which held its annual bal masqué in the Royal Tent of the New Orleans ...

Muslims who wanted to select his successor, or Caliph, by following the traditional Arab custom (Sunna) formed into a group known as Sunnis. Others insisted the Prophet had designated his cousin ...

His next focus was the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif. Historical accounts describe how the Caliph found the site in a state of neglect, covered in trash and debris.¹⁰ Rather than ...