FILE - In this April 11, 2005 file photo, former Sudanese Prime Minister and head of the National Umma Party, Sadiq Al-Mahdi attends a US-Islamic World Forum meeting held in Doha, Qatar. Al-Mahdi, 84, ...

Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, whose real name was Jamal Jaafar Al-Tamimi, was born in 1954 in the old district of Basra. He went on to become one of the most prominent military and political figures in ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — An Islamic extremist pleaded guilty Monday at the International Criminal Court and expressed "deep regret" for destroying historic mausoleums in the Malian desert city of ...

On Thursday, more than 2 million Shi’a devotees will gather at the holy city of Karbala to celebrate the birth anniversary of the Twelfth Shi’a Imam, Imam al-Mahdi. This celebration marks the ...

Opposition leader of Umma Party and Sudan's former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi receives a hug from a supporter at his home in Omdurman after he was released, June 15, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin ...

Islamist extremist Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi has pled guilty at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to the destruction of cultural heritage. The trial marks the first time that the court has ...

Hundreds of members of Al Mahdi Army, which was created by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr, were trained by members of the militant Lebanese group Hezbollah in Iran, according to a former ...