But even with U.S. troops on the ground, the Mahdi Army, the Badr Brigades and others-not to mention Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia-are preventing Iraq’s government and parliament from governing at the ...

Since King apparently believes that all Shiites march in blind lockstep, then perhaps he can explain why the Badr Corps militia and Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army have spent the last several years ...

Surviving Black Hawk Down tells the famous story of the Battle of Mogadishu, but it only scratches the surface of one of its ...

Two Turkish brothers were sentenced to 45,376 years and six months in prison on Monday after being found guilty of money ...

They had given him lucrative Army contracts for wood. When El Mahdi Pasha promised his followers a square meter in Heaven for every meter of lumber they felled, fanatic Sudanese woodsmen chopped ...

The United States invaded and occupied Iraq promising to bring stability and reconstruct it but it made the country an ...

On February 8, 1979, a group of Air Force commanders from the Shah's regime went to Imam Khomeini's residence to pledge their ...

Though Tehran scrambled to help the Assads face off the rebel assault, soldiers were turning on their own commanders ...

Six people were killed and two others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting Lebanon’s eastern Baalbek district; 22 more ...

Sheikh Yazebk started his statement by felicitating the nation on the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, saying: “In these days, the days of the victorious and blessed ...

Winners and Losers Aspecter is haunting the Middle East. A little more than a quarter century after the Shah’s fall, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s wildest dreams seem to be coming ...