Stealing around barbed wire barriers through fields and side streets, dozens of black-clad Shia pilgrims in Baghdad defied curfews and coronavirus ...
The tomb of Imam Reza in Iran’s holy Shia city of Mashhad has been closed to pilgrims until further notice in line with measures to stop the new ...
Iraq canceled Friday prayers in the Shia holy city of Kerbala due to concerns about the coronavirus, a statement from the holy site administration ...
Iraq’s top Shia cleric on Friday urged security forces and protesters not to use violence and criticized Iraqi leaders for failing to eradicate ...
A statement issued by the Iraqi Shia religious authority on Friday endorsed the ongoing protests in the country and warned of the “serious ...
For years, Karar Hussein has sold sweets in his shop near the entrance to one of Shiite Islam’s holiest shrines, accepting whatever currency was ...
In the main square in the northern Iraqi town of Bartella stands a large cross, one of the few overt signs the town was historically Christian. Nearby ...
A week of fighting between Taliban militants and fighters loyal to a commander from the mainly Shiite Hazara minority has heightened fears of a ...
Three Shiite Muslim pilgrims were killed by a roadside bomb as they walked to a holy site near the northeastern Iraqi city of Khanaqin on Tuesday, ...
Iran’s judiciary has arrested a journalist over “insults” to Imam Hussein, one of the most revered religious figures in the Shiite ...
A few months ago, no one expected that Adel Abdul Mehdi would be asked to form the Iraqi government, despite his natural presence in the club of ...
Following a messy election, Sadrists in Iraq have ripped down portraits of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei enhancing prospects of ...
They are busy and preoccupied with the qualities of the next prime minister. They claim to be writing down the desired attributes without caring about ...
I believe what has happened in Basra is a historic turning point that could be considered a sign that in the future there will be developments to get ...
With Iran’s founder and first Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini applying the name of the Islamic Republic of Iran to his regime, after the fall ...
Following the 9/11 attacks in the United States, the media was flooded with news of centers recruiting and brainwashing young Muslims with the intent ...
It is said that once a Sunni Palestinian and a Shiite Iraqi were debating in London over Husayn ibn Ali and Muawiyah and who was better among the two. ...
A recent report by BBC on Qatar’s involvement in paying over $1 billion ransom to a terrorist group, in exchange for the release of Qatari ...
The Shirazi reference believes that “media outlets these days are a tool in the hands of the enemies of values, morals and humanity. Given the ...
With Muqtada al-Sadr’s successful bid to win in the late Iraqi national elections, he has won the right to form a government.Until now, ...
President Trump’s withdrawal from Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran did not come as a surprise. On the contrary, it would have been ...
Iraq's one-party rule collapsed in April 2003; a rule that was inherited by a political class that ran the country under the name of democracy. Since ...
Observers of the Iranian situation can clearly see that Iran is not living its best days during this historical phase in the region and the world. ...
Lebanese will have a first opportunity in nine years to vote in a general election which started Friday outside the country, under new rules, expected ...
Israel’s envoy to the United Nations said on Thursday that Iran had recruited at least 80,000 Shiite fighters which it was training at a base ...
United in their fight against Saddam Hussein’s oppression for decades, Iraq’s Shiites have become deeply fragmented and disillusioned with ...
Iraqis are set to head to the polls on May 12 for parliamentary elections. At the end of the ballot, the 329 members of parliament elected from party ...
A Bahrain court sentenced 24 Shiite citizens to prison and stripped them of their nationality after finding them guilty of forming a “terrorist ...
For the first time in Lebanon’s modern history, election headlines are almost nonexistent. With the exception of the Shiite camp, which has ...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, speaking to the Atlantic, said that both Sunni and Shiite Muslims lived in Saudi Arabia and that Shiite ...
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