His Imamate lasted 34 years, coinciding with the decline of the Umayyad Caliphate and the rise of the early Abbasids, al-Saffah and al-Mansur al-Dawaniqi. Taking advantage of the Umayyad's weakness, ...

A former Israeli intelligence official, Avi Melamed, has said Hamas is seeking expansion into Jordan through the Muslim Brotherhood to fulfil its ambition of a global Islamic caliphate.

There will not be an Islamic caliphate, not in the south, not in the north, and not in Judea and Samaria," Netanyahu stated. The Prime Minister also mentioned the Iranian threat. "The Iranian ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has strongly condemned the recent terrorist attack in the Republic of Benin, describing it as a cowardly assault aimed at destabilizing the ...

and a research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.Lappin is the author of Virtual Caliphate: Exposing the Islamist State on the Internet. Follow him ...

Francis's Iraq tour was intended to visit Christian communities that endured brutality from the Islamic State "caliphate," or the previous Islamic government where political and religious ...

Sharaa has argued his time in AQI was more about gaining fighting experience and defending Iraqis than building a caliphate or imposing al-Qaeda's harsh variant of Islamic law. "There was a ...

Such an environment of curiosity and openness was supported caliphs, sultans, and viziers, most notably the Abbasids, but also to varying degrees the Umayyads and Seljuks, and later the Timurids ...

There will be no Islamic caliphate, not in the south, not in the north, and not in Judea and Samaria [West Bank]." He added, "I promise - the military pressure on Hamas will continue. We will ...

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about U.S. politics, crime and ...