Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani warned against targeting Iran's leadership and said that the Iran ...

Sistani, condemned military aggression against Iran, warning of severe regional chaos if hostilities escalate. He urged ...

The Islamic Resistance of Iraq has carried out more than 180 such attacks against US forces in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan since ...

A senior official from Iraq’s ruling Shiite-led Coordination Framework stated that preparations are underway to hold mass pro ...

From 2011-2012, while he was 16 and 17 years-old, al-Nimr protested against Saudi Arabia’s anti-Shiite prejudice. In early 2012, he was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death. Barring King ...

The Shiite militias, known as popular mobilization units, received the government’s blessing to take part in the battle that could break Islamic State’s grip in Iraq, and they have promised to ...

With no functioning government and no common ground, tensions among Shiite political factions have become a deadly matter in Baghdad this week. By Jane Arraf After years of harsh repression under ...

During Syria’s civil war, protecting the revered Sayyida Zeinab shrine was a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and groups from beyond the country’s borders backing then-President Bashar Assad.

The bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in this Sunni city in central Iraq opened the worst chapter of the war, two years of sectarian bloodshed. Five years after its destruction, the iconic dome ...

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani cautioned against targeting Iran's leadership, emphasizing the potential for regional chaos ...

Diplomacy often takes the form of staged meetings and statements whose plain meanings differ from what the country’s leaders ...