ACCORDING TO ONE legend, the Kurds are descended from 400 virgins who were raped by devils on the way to King Solomon's court. Fatah Kavian, a member of the central committee of the anti-Khomeini ...

Iran says it executed nine militants of the Islamic State group detained after a 2018 attack. The Iranian judiciary's Mizan news agency announced the executions Tuesday. It described the militants ...

The FBI under the leadership of Director Kash Patel has made fighting violent crime and illegal immigration top priorities.

Muslims are the world’s fastest-growing and second-largest religious group. In the Middle East-North Africa region, they make ...

Read how demographic factors – age composition, life expectancy and fertility rates – and religious switching changed the ...

Thousands of foreign fighters fought alongside the Syrian rebel groups that toppled the Assad dictatorship. Many plan to stay ...

Yasmine al-Saleh has two occasions to celebrate this year: the Eid al-Adha holiday and her family’s return home after nine ...

A dozen Canadian men and children detained in Syria are complaining to the Canadian Human Rights Commission that Ottawa is ...

A Syrian activist network said that the explosion killed four antigovernment activists. Residents Race to Help Victims of Deadly Blast Video posted to YouTube on Tuesday was said to show the ...

An archival photo shows Little Syria in 1940 before it was destroyed to make way for the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Credit: Couresty of New York Narratives It’s a story that perhaps began with Van Salee ...

and to "test his faith and to become a real Muslim" by joining ISIS ... oversee two camps in northeast Syria, called al-Hol and Roj, that hold mostly the children, widows, wives and other female ...

A Syrian man suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group ... And in January, a man with a kitchen knife attacked a group of kindergarten children in Aschaffenburg, killing a two-year-old boy and ...