The ringleader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which is commonly known as ISIS, was "relentlessly hunted down" and ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was killed in an operation by members of ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service ...

In his new book 'The Islamic Moses,' US-based author Mustafa Akyol turns to the Quran's focus on a shared prophet to ...

The Iraqi Prime Minister said that personnel of the country's national intelligence service, working with coalition forces ...

Rifai, known as 'Abu Khadija,' a prominent leader of ISIS, was killed in an Iraqi intelligence operation with U.S. support.

On 11 March 2025, the Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999), 1989 (2011) and 2253 (2015) concerning ...

Many other respected sets of laws have been highly impractical in quite puzzling ways, including those developed by the authors of the Old Testament. Although inspired by the Mesopotamian tradition, ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, but four. The Mishnah in Tamid (5:1) tells us that in Temple times the ...

Historical accounts describe how the Caliph found the site in a state of neglect ... Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaya wa’l-Nihaya (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, 1998), 2:189. 4. Goitein, Studies in Islamic ...