Saudi apprehension has its roots in a long-standing fear that Iran, as the seat of Shia Islam, would use an offensive nuclear capability to exert unchallenged political influence over the rest of ...

While plenty of elections around the world have gone off without a hitch, elections also have a way of ... and the parliamentary speaker needs to be a Shiite Muslim. Theodore Roosevelt was a former ...

A Christian man in the the eastern Pakistani town of Jaranwala has been sentenced to death after being accused of desecrating ...

Aoun said the government has yet to speak to Hezbollah about the matter, but that Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, a Shiite politician allied to the militant group, “is in full agreement ...

BAGHDAD — Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US Trump administration, 10 ...