Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr announced he would withdraws from politics, prompting hundreds of protesters to storm the ...

In July 2020, the assassination of Hisham al-Hashimi sent shock waves throughout Iraq. In the weeks before he was gunned down in his car while pulling up to his home, the prominent counterterrorism ...

Iraq’s President Nizar Amedi has named Ali al-Zaidi as prime minister-designate and tasked him with forming a government, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Iraq has reported. Al-Zaidi was named earlier on ...

Beirut, Lebanon – As Israel’s war on Lebanon passes the 100-day mark, the partnership between the country’s two main Shia blocs – the Amal Movement and the Hezbollah armed and political group – ...

Analysts are keeping a wary eye on the tensions between Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia and Shia-dominated Iran Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was not among the “A-list” of Shia clerics in Saudi Arabia. But his ...

The execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr has not only precipitated a new diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Iran, it also puts Saudi Arabia’s little-known, beleaguered Shia population into the ...

Shia families across Madhya Pradesh will observe a silent Eid al-Fitr this year in mourning for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Around 4,000 Shia families in cities like Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur and Burhanpur ...

SINCE the dawn of Islam, Shias have been trying to penetrate Egypt. Ali, the Prophet Muhammad’s son-in-law and the first imam of Shia Islam, sent a loyal follower to govern the area. But no sooner had ...