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.

Ideological enemies of the caliphate were executed by beheading or being burned alive. But while the violence mobilised global opposition to what the then-US president, Barack Obama, called IS’s ...

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 ...

This is the celebration of celebrations!' An aerial picture shows people gathering in the Umayyad Mosque courtyard after the morning prayer on the first day of Eid Al Fitr, in Damascus on March 31 ...

From the early morning hours, crowds of men, women and children flocked to pray at Damascus's historic Umayyad Mosque for Eid — Bakr ALKASEM Eid al-Fitr in Syria was charged with newfound joy this ...

It’s going to be a wretched and fearful Easter for Christians in Nigeria. The killing and persecution of Christians by Islamist militants intent on creating a muslim caliphate in this West ...

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 ...

After years of bloody warfare, Iraq's prime minister announced a final victory over Daesh in December 2017, while the SDF proclaimed the defeat of the group's "caliphate" in March 2019 after ...