Sayyid Yasin Mousavi, Sheikh Ali al-Mustarishd, Sheikh Ja'far Ashour, Sheikh Nazir Malik, and Sheikh Mahmoud Taheri are the five Shia scholars, whose houses were raided on Wednesday without providing ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Amid global controversy over depictions of Muhammad, a ...

Prominent Shia scholars from the Jafaria school met Syed Asim Munir and reaffirmed their strong commitment to national unity, peace, and stability across Pakistan. The meeting highlighted the ...

Unidentified gunmen opened fire on Allama Alim Al-Musvi while he was walking to the mosque. Gunmen killed a Shia Muslim scholar in Peshawar on Monday, police and hospital officials said. Allama Alim ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Like many from Lebanon's Shia community in 1985, I joined Hezbollah as ...

After 37 years in America, Cerritos physician Ridha Hajjar can recite a history of tough times for Shia Muslims, who predominate in places such as Iraq -- where they have long been shut out of power - ...

Soon after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, a CBS News crew interviewed a young Shia cleric who explained what was happening in his country this way: “The little serpent ...