Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee to lead the Defense Department, promised to be a change agent and keep politics out of the ...

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says the brotherly bonds between Pakistan and Iraq are deeply rooted in common religion and shared interests. Talking to Iraq's Ambassador to Pakistan Hamid ...

In an excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography, Francis said two suicide bombers had been planning to attack one of his ...

Iraq is planning to host an international conference to discuss developments in the region, the country's Prime Minister ...

Here's a look at the Islamic State group, its current status, and some of the offshoot armed groups and so-called lone wolves that have killed under the Islamic State flag.

(RNS) — A report by Pew Research Center on international religious freedom named Egypt, Syria, Pakistan and Iraq as the countries where both government restrictions and social hostility most ...

In the Italian excerpts, Francis recalled his historic March 2021 trip to Iraq, the first ever by a ... Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with ...

The U.S. government has found that genocide has occurred in several parts of the world over the last two decades, most ...

The New Orleans attack, like that earlier incident, underscores an important point: While the Islamic State group’s ...

The U.S. State Department said the country was afflicted by sectarian violence “exacerbated by regime actions” and accused the Syrian government of using “sectarianism, including the politicization of ...

Long-term analysis of 198 countries and territories shows government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward ...

The deadly Jan. 1, 2025, attack in New Orleans serves as a reminder of the persistent threat to the U.S. from individuals inspired by extremist Islamist groups.