Shortly before Sunni Islamist-led rebels swept into the Syrian capital, Iran-backed guards fled their positions at the gates a revered Shiite shrine in a Damascus suburb.

AKBAR GANJI is an Iranian journalist. A former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, he became a political ...

There are two versions of Sayyida Zaynab, the suburb south of Damascus and home to a shrine for a revered Muslim figure. One ...

TEHRAN - The booth representing the holy shrine of Shah Cheragh at the 18th Tehran International Tourism and Related ...

A British court has sentenced former soldier Daniel Khalife to 14 years and three months in prison for spying for Iran and escaping prison. Khalife, whose prison break in 2023 made international ...

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Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

due to the fact that a main Bahai shrine is located in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. In 2022, Iranian security forces in northern Iran arrested 12 followers of the Bahai faith and accused ...

Syrian intelligence said it foiled an attack by the Islamic State group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in Damascus in January.

This brings the total to 15 British Columbian residents who never made it back home from Iran. There were 138 passengers, including 63 Canadians, on the Ukraine International Airlines flight who ...