Protests erupted in many of Iraq's Shia Muslim areas on Monday as Shia leaders sought to increase pressure on the US-led coalition and scupper Iraq's temporary constitution. Shia stone-throwers ...

KARBALA, Iraq—The inner sanctum of the Imam Hussein Shrine shines day and night, illuminated by jeweled chandeliers. Their light is reflected in the mirrored domes of the roof, and gleams across the ...

Sheik Kadhim Fartousi is, by all appearances, a man of action. Dressed in an imam’s gray robes, black cloak, and white turban, he glides through the dusty streets of Al Thawra, Baghdad’s teeming Shia ...

As Pope Francis continues his efforts to encourage and personally engage in interreligious dialogue, his planned March trip to Iraq will be an opportunity to extend a hand to the Shia Muslim community ...

Asadi’s purported transformation epitomises the expansive ambitions of predominantly Shia armed groups known as the Popular ...

BAGHDAD - Culture plays a lead role in the lives of people all over the world, and while in Iraq, there are many cultural differences and Islamic practices that U.S. Soldiers need to be aware of.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - More than 600 Shia pilgrims in Iraq were hospitalized due to respiratory issues. They were treated after inhaling chlorine due to a leakage at a water treatment station, as ...

The local Shia Muslim community will honor Imam Hussain, a martyr who defended Islam with a small group of supporters against an Iraqi army nearly 1,400 years ago, with an event on Saturday in ...

CORDIAL encounters between representatives of different creeds are common enough in the Western world, whether the organisers are universities, governments or NGOs. (In the latter case, inter-faith ...

The Islamic State has issued a stern warning to any Sunni Muslims planning to taking part in Iraq’s upcoming general elections—don’t. On April 22, Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir, the spokesman of ISIS, ...

Vali Nasr is a Middle East scholar and dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Nasr has written several books about sectarianism, including Forces of Fortune and The Shia ...