Ex-Special Branch senior officer Mohamad Nadzri Mat Isa said he was aware of a ‘conflicting stand’ taken by his predecessor ...

They are home to some of the most magnificent and sacred shrines of the Shia branch of Islam and are leading centres for scholars of Islamic theology. The fabled shrines and colleges were for a long ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran, meanwhile, is overwhelmingly Shia, with up to 95 per cent of nationals belonging to the denomination. Both countries are major oil producers but while Saudi covers a ...

The group has longstanding ties to Iran, which also ascribes to the Shia branch, and is considered the Islamic Republic’s strongest military proxy in the Middle East. Hezbollah’s leaders ...

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 ...

An Afghan branch of the violent extremist group Islamic ... And this same group also said it was behind a shooting attack at a Shia shrine in Shiraz in 2022 and another one last year.

Iran continues to be the main threat for neighboring Iraq There are many reasons for this, some of them quite ancient For example, Iranians are largely members of the Shia branch of Islam Only about ...