A multimillion-dollar Saudi TV production portraying the life of an early Islamic ruler has caused controversy in the Middle East, with Iraq and Iran banning the show and some clerics denouncing it as ...

A television series about the life of the Umayyad caliph, Muawiya, titled "Mo'awey," which was banned in Iraq due to the ...

The Saudis could regain the political and financial clout they once enjoyed in Lebanon, which was lost for two decades to Hezbollah and its foreign patrons. Could that restore a measure of prosperity ...

Iraq's Ambassador to Riyadh Safia Al Souhail confirmed that Iraqi-Saudi relations are undergoing a strategic transformation, ...

In a recent interview, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman stated that the Quran is always open interpretation, a clear ...

For Muslims in Saudi Arabia and most Sunni-ruled Middle Eastern states Ramadan will begin on Saturday, but in Shiite-majority ...

Saudi Arabia also announced the start of Ramadan ... The office of Ayatollah Sistani, the supreme Shia authority in Iraq, announced that this Sunday will be the first day of the holy month of ...

Saudi Arabia says it has broken off diplomatic ties with Iran, amid a row over the Saudi execution of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was speaking after ...

Earlier this week, the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) had forecasted that the holy month ...

The ban was a long time coming: the show had threatened a diplomatic row between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Two years ago, Muqtada al-Sadr, the influential Shia cleric and Iraqi political figure ...