Afghan security personnel detain a suspect at the site of an attack by the Islamic State on the Marshal Fahim military academy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 29, 2018. The recent killing of the Islamic ...

In order to understand what is unfolding today, we need to review the Islamic State’s past transitions, tease out the logic that informs how new leaders are chosen, and discover what practices it ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Today marks 102 years since the destruction of the Ottoman Caliphate by Mustafa Kemal, heralding arguably the darkest chapter in Islamic history after the death of Rasūl ...

BEIRUT — Screams, carnage — and a black banner. The attacker in the deadly New Year’s truck-ramming strike on revelers in New Orleans’ French Quarter had a black Islamic State flag, the FBI says. Law ...

Islam is the second-largest religion in the world. It has more than 900 million adherents all over the globe, but, at present, has no recognized caliph. The word "caliph" means "successor" and "deputy ...

I just pledged allegiance to the Caliphate. This may sound like a radical statement, one to induce a reaction of anxiety, perhaps even fear, in people's hearts. But the Caliphate which I refer to is ...

"This book was originally published in French as La mer des califes: Une histoire de la Mediterranee musulmane, VIIe-XIIe siecle, copyright (c) Editions du Seuil, 2015"--Title page verso. Contents ...

If there were an ex-Pope, if he had a beauteous daughter, if she became secretly engaged to the eldest son of “The Richest Man in the World,” then Catholics would be as excited as Moslems were last ...

Young King Farouk of Egypt was today acclaimed as Caliph of Islam during a ceremony attended by some of the highest dignitaries of the Moslem world. Attending the ceremony at which Farouk was thus ...