For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

Najaf is home to the shrine of Imam Ali, the fourth Islamic caliph and relative ... Millions of Shi’ite pilgrims from Iraq and around the world travel to Najaf and its twin holy city of Karbala ...

August 29 - Car bomb kills at least eight-three at the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf ... Insurgents execute at least nine suicide bombings on Iraq’s election day, killing at least thirty-five.

Qari Ismaeel Khandia helped to create the mosque, in a terraced house on Dairyhouse Road, in the 1960s. He was the first Imam there, and later became one of the main teachers and leaders at the ...

Salwan Momika had vehemently staged the burning and desecration of Islam's holy book in recent times—videos of which went viral, provoking anger and backlash in several Muslim-majority countries. Momi ...

Previously known as the Shah Mosque, the Imam Khomeini ... Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, led opposition to the Shah and demanded his removal. In 1964, Khomeini was exiled to Iraq, while Khamenei faced ...