BAGHDAD, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's top Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani warned Thursday that any threat targeting Iran's supreme religious and political leadership would portend dire consequences for the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...