Just days before Bangladesh votes, rival Islamist groups have turned the election into a showdown. The Hefazat-e-Islam has declared jihad against the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami, saying voting for it is ...

The annual National Prayer Breakfast “is supposed to be a normal, nonpartisan event,” Seth Meyers said, “but, of course, ...

Trump claims his administration has done more to confront persecution of Christians worldwide than any modern presidency as White House hosts those who have been persecuted on Thursday.

This story has been updated to correctly identify the summit in Washington this week. It is the International Religious ...

The finished work consists of 302 double sided scrolls, each measuring 4 meters (13 feet) in length and 1.5 meters in width.

As a plenary panelist at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit, I will say this clearly: People fleeing ...

Churches, synagogues, and mosques must bridge the gap with local law enforcement and the FBI to receive real-time threat ...

Iraq is at a crossroads as its largest Shia bloc risks fallout by backing Nouri al-Maliki for the prime minister post, ...

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has expressed defiance after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Iraq must do more to protect women after a harassment incident in Basra sparked nationwide outrage and highlighted gender-based violence, activists have told The National.

The Yazidis are an ancient religious sect concentrated in a remote corner of Iraq. They've been thrust into the spotlight of Iraq's nasty... Until a few days ago, most people outside of Iraq had never ...