Bill is set to endorse the government’s move to include non-Muslims in Waqf boards, saying they can be “beneficiaries, ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani announced on Friday that security forces had arrested a group of former officers responsible for executing prominent religious leader Mohammad Baqir ...

The parliamentary panel has recommended allowing up to four non-Muslim members on central and state Waqf boards and has ...

MP says new Personal Status Law amendment no longer allows child marriage but concerns remain over impact of legislation ...

The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases, but the changes passed Tuesday would let clerics ...

Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka directed the wakf board to take over the Ibadat Khana and form a managing committee consisting of equal members from both Shia sects, Akhbari and Usuli, to resolve the ...

IRAQ has effectively legalised child marriage, with girls as young as nine being able to marry after amendments to decades old laws. The change on Tuesday has increased the interpretation of ...

Unofficially, Lebanon’s major sects – Muslims from Sunni and Shia sects as well as Christians – must all be represented in cabinet. No Shia lawmakers endorsed the prime minister designate ...

Gunmen in Syria have shot dead 10 people in a “massacre” in a village home to members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s ...

That tragic and grisly attack had been preceded by the killing of one Sunni teacher and seven individuals from the Shia sect in Upper Kurram, which had already heightened tensions in the area ...