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

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

While Tehran has spent decades building up militias in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, most of the groups have found themselves battered in recent years, making them unable and unwilling to ...

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 ...

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

The future of public media depends on viewers like you. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Gunmen attacked a major Shiite holy site in Iran on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding ...

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.

Shiite Ritual Draws Blood, Evokes History—and ISIS Fight During an annual Shiite celebration known as Ashoura, worshipers inflicted themselves with wounds on Monday to commemorate the death of a ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese civilians most devastated by the Israel- Hezbollah war are Shiite Muslims, and many of them believe they are being unfairly punished because they share a religious identity ...

Shiite Muslims across the globe on Tuesday observed Ashura, an annual commemoration mourning the seventh-century martyrdom of a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. Imam Hussein bin Ali’s death in ...

At the time, the shrine’s protection from Sunni extremists became a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and Iran-backed groups from beyond Syria’s borders who backed the former government of ...