The caliphate was abolished soon after the birth of modern Turkey. Some tried to keep it alive in the Indian princely state ...

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne. We've been hearing a lot these past few weeks about the extremist Sunni militants ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi troops battled to dislodge an al Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit on Monday after its leader was declared caliph of a new Islamic state in lands seized this month ...

Multiple ground assaults and a deluge of air strikes shrank the Islamic State group's "caliphate" to a rump and decimated its fighters in 2016 but the organisation remains a potent threat. The ...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities on Thursday arrested four staff members of state TV, accusing them of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims and close ally of the Prophet Muhammad, state TV ...