The suicide bombings in Iraq have targeted Shiite Muslims, who comprise about 60% of the country’s population, but a small minority in the larger Arab and Islamic worlds. The al-Qaeda terrorists ...

In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: Baghdad, the intellectual, cultural, and scientific hub of the Islamic Golden Age, and Saudi ...

Today’s capital of Iraq is often associated ... rich and diverse history of the Abbasid Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age. Here are some things to know about the founding of Abbasid ...

Iraq has passed ... sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases. The changes passed Tuesday would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Islamic law, which some interpret ...

(Hadi Mizban/AP) BAGHDAD — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led ...