His interior minister is a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander who has suppressed protests against the regime. He has kept his hardline predecessor’s intelligence minister ...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the 1930s ...

To identify the most powerful Islamic countries in the world, we considered 30 countries where at least 50% of the population is Muslim. We used two key metrics: real GDP and military strength.

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This analysis of IS-K was published in 2018 and is not being updated. For a more recent analysis of Islamic State Khorasan from the Transnational Threats Project, please click here. Islamic State ...

By Eve Sampson Israel’s killing of a young commander of the local branch of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the West Bank city of Tulkarm is shining a spotlight on the group. Here’s a closer look.

The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a knife attack in the German city of Solingen on Friday evening that killed three people and wounded eight others. The group said ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran is host to one of the largest and most protracted refugee situations in the world, having provided asylum to refugees for over forty years. 800,000 refugees currently live ...

Yaqeen Institute, an Islamic research organization, writes that Muhammad began receiving visions and direction from God and used those to create The Quran. There is no mention of Catholic involvement.

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Abi-Mershed, Osama 2002. Degrees of Interpretive Autonomy: Ijtihād and the constraints of competence and context in late medieval Tilimsan. Islam and Christian ...

DUBAI, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Islamic State has described the 26-year-old Syrian man taken into custody after a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen as a "soldier" of the group.