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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shia cleric and his sister during Saddam ...

Dave Portnoy, known as "El Presidente," founded Barstool Sports, and is the public face of the company. The Massachusetts native has made quite a name for himself. Here's what to know about him ...

Even Los Angeles isn’t safe from Dave Chappelle’s comedy. The Emmy winner, 51, mocked the wildfire evacuations during his second skit hosting “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.