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At least 47 people were killed and 70 wounded after multiple explosions went off inside and outside an Afghanistan mosque during Friday prayers, witnesses said.

ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a mosque Friday that killed at least 46 Shiite Muslim worshippers and wounded dozens in Afghanistan.

Shiite Islam, including Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani and his millions of followers around the world, are important to the future of coexistence in the Middle East and across the world.

It is hard to see a happy end to the current problems plaguing Lebanon.

Basic human rights are under assault in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Ancient Persian culture has much to teach, but the modern Iranian regime buries that great legacy.

The president campaigned on a vow to bring American troops home, but his standoff with Iran has seen thousands more soldiers deployed to the Middle East.

Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said Tehran was responsible for 17 percent of all U.S. service personnel deaths between 2003 and 2011.

The move follows reports that Tehran has transferred ballistic missiles to Shiite fighters in Iraq.

Reuters reported that Tehran was supplying missiles to Shiite Muslim militias in Iraq just a day after an Israeli satellite imagery firm alleged Iranian support for missile sites in Syria.

The U.S. secretly backed both Iran and Iraq in their 1980s war. Their current alliance now spells trouble for American policy in the Middle East.

Despite recent rifts in their strategic relationship, Russia and Iran are still working together in what appears to be the latter stages of Syria's civil war.

The whereabouts and fate of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi himself remain unknown.

Around 2,000 members of the Afghan Ulema Council were meeting in Kabul when a lone bomber struck.

President Donald Trump called for Arab partners to contribute more to the fight against ISIS in Syria, but Saudi backing could further complicate the war.

Having reached out for potential investment with South Korea, Saudi Arabia is talking tough against Iran's "Hitler."

Groups the U.S. is considering labeling terrorist organizations have officially become part of the Iraqi military that Washington sponsors.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, "what the Saudis do...is certainly a betrayal of the Islamic Ummah and the Muslim World."

Some view the Islamic Military Coalition as essentially a Sunni alliance against Iran.

Bahrain said the "terrorist act" by Iran was meant to destabilize the mostly Shiite Muslim kingdom ruled by a Sunni Muslim monarchy.

The militant group has seized upon the instability in Yemen, where a two-year civil war rages on.

More than 1,700 civilians have been killed in attacks in Afghanistan this year.

Saudi Arabia reopened its embassy in Baghdad in 2015 following a 25-year break.

Human Rights Watch said an Iraqi unit trained by American forces summarily executed prisoners in western Mosul.

Qatar has become a proxy fight between Iran and Saudi Arabia, with the U.S. on the sidelines.

The Syrian civil war made the Lebanese Shiite organization stronger, but as tensions with Israel flare, Hezbollah risks losing much of what it gained.

Given Iran's vast Shia population, it was assumed Iranian recruits to ISIS would be hard to find.

Are the U.S. Navy as relaxed about repression in Bahrain as the White House appears to be?

One problem with flattering Trump is that his policy shifts reflect his limited attention span.

Shiite-Sunni conflicts are raging in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Pakistan, and the divide is growing deeper across the Muslim world.