Saudi Arabia is planning to execute five young Saudi Arabian Shia citizens and one businessman on charges the United Nations has deemed arbitrary and which campaigners and legal experts say are ...

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At the age of 20, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini inherited the reins of a Shia Muslim lineage and used his entrepreneurship to become one of the world’s richest hereditary rulers. By Alan Cowell The ...

Here are five keys to better understanding the religious tradition. Ismaili Islam is a branch of Shia Islam. According to the Shiites, temporal and spiritual power is vested in the imams ...

A key Iranian proxy is found among the Iraqi Shia, who have a history with Iran that goes back to the Saddam Hussein era but whose full value to Tehran only started to be realized after the 2003 US ...

This is the Sunni viewpoint. A minority believed that Ali, the Prophet’s son-in-law should lead the community. These Muslims came to be known as Shi’a, which means ‘Party of Ali’ ...

The main road connecting Parachinar, which has become a battleground between Shia and Sunni Muslims, has also been closed for the past three months. In fact, there has been a history of heavy ...

Amidst a turbulent region, Iraq enjoys a period of relative stability. Stable and high oil prices enable Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani’s government to focus on infrastructure development and ...

King Charles held an audience with Iraq's prime minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani at Buckingham Palace today, as the royal returns to work amid ongoing cancer treatment. The monarch, 76 ...

A Muslim cleric who refused to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization and has a “significant history of extremism” has been tapped to deliver a benediction at President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

In her new book, “House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company,” Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou charts Huawei’s development, starting with the man at ...

Rising Chinese singer-songwriter Leah Dou – daughter of Hong Kong singer Faye Wong and Chinese musician Dou Wei – will perform for the first time in Singapore this weekend. The 28-year-old ...