U.S. president is pressing countries to take in Palestinians by threatening to cut aid, but it’s too dangerous for Arab ...

TEHRAN - A professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, says Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has ...

This brand of salafism evolved significantly since it emerged over a century ago in the Middle East. A pivotal figure in this transformation was an Egyptian intellectual and Qur’an commentator ...

Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt for “indecent behavior,” according to reports in the Egyptian ...

Salafism teaches that a rigid application of sharia is the ... and middle-class professionals. In Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen, Islamists joined the protests belatedly—but subsequently took ...

The decision to award titles to foreign fighters (including Uighurs, a Tajik national, a Jordanian, a Turk, an Egyptian and an Albanian ... Without an appropriate balance of incentives-to-payoffs, ...

39 Like Salafi Saudi Arabia, Al-Qaeda is also distancing itself from ... and threaten even the moderate monarchies of Jordan, Egypt and the GCC states, in a new Arab Spring-like tumult. With the ...

Reformer, tyrant or both? Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is reshaping his kingdom. What does it mean for the world? And how ...

However, there are also Salafi Islamist tendencies among them ... are better than anywhere else in the Middle East, such as Egypt. On the other hand, every ethnic and religious group prefers ...

Unlike in Egypt and Tunisia, where the professional ... “Our feeling is, if the regime falls, the Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood will seize power—and that is bad news for us,” said ...