Saudi Arabia is planning to execute five young Saudi Arabian Shia citizens and one Shia businessman on charges the United Nations has deemed arbitrary and which campaigners and legal experts say ...

At the age of 20, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini inherited the reins of a Shia Muslim lineage and used his entrepreneurship to become one of the world’s richest hereditary rulers. By Alan Cowell The ...

Minneapolis police officer convicted of aiding and abetting murder of George Floyd to be released from federal prison. Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng, convicted in the killing of ...

It’s a day loved ones of George Floyd knew was coming — when ex-Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Keung would be released. Keung — who was one of the four officers convicted in ...

MINNEAPOLIS — One of the ex-Minneapolis police officers convicted in the killing of George Floyd finished his prison sentence on Wednesday. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Keung was ...

Britain has an estimated Muslim population of about 2.8 million. Of these some 5% are Shia, the rest are Sunni. The historical split occurred 1400 years ago, following the death of Muhammad in ...

Amidst a turbulent region, Iraq enjoys a period of relative stability. Stable and high oil prices enable Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani’s government to focus on infrastructure development and ...

WOODBURY, Minn. — No charges will be filed against a former substitute teacher who students say reenacted the police actions that led to the murder of George Floyd during class. The incident ...

The main road connecting Parachinar, which has become a battleground between Shia and Sunni Muslims, has also been closed for the past three months. In fact, there has been a history of heavy ...

Former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng goes through security at the Hennepin County Courthouse before a motions hearing in Minneapolis in July 2020. One of the four former ...

Alexander Kueng, charged in connection to the death of George Floyd, is scheduled to be released Wednesday from FCI Elkton, a low-security federal correctional institution in Ohio. Katie Wermus at ...

A key Iranian proxy is found among the Iraqi Shia, who have a history with Iran that goes back to the Saddam Hussein era but whose full value to Tehran only started to be realized after the 2003 US ...