On the eve of the 1987 hajj pilgrimage, around 400 people were killed in the clashes between mostly Iranian Shia pilgrims, ...

More than 700 civilians of the Alawite religious minority have been killed, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human ...

Since taking political power in 1979, Iran’s Shia clergy has been supporting the ... There are over 2.5 million Muslims in the UK and the mosque has a central role in Islam.

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa scrambled on Sunday to contain some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting ...

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa scrambled on Sunday to contain some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, ...

Not so in Iran, where pious Iranians were urged to donate property to Islamic institutions. The less pious were shown unpleasant alternatives. As a result, by 2008 over 70,000 mosques ... a return of ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in two days of clashes between gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new ...

The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority ...

The war, in which Western countries, Arab states and Turkey backed the rebels, while Russia, Iran and militias loyal ... Alawites, who belong to an offshoot of Shia Islam, became associated ...

The leader of Daesh in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq’s prime minister said on Friday, describing him as “one of the ...