A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Sunday among a crowd of pilgrims worshipping at a revered Shiite shrine in northern Baghdad, killing at least 38 people and wounding about 72, the Iraqi army and police said. ...more

January 4, 2009

Two area physicians, Dr. Abdur Rahim and Dr. Hayath Javeed, credit the Hajj, the pilgrimage to the holiest place of Islam, with deepening their spiritual lives. ...more

December 30, 2008

Earlier this month, about 3 million pairs of feet walked the ancient deserts of Saudi Arabia to draw closer to their god. ...more

December 29, 2008

A car bomb killed at least 24 people, many of them Shiite pilgrims, and wounded 46 others when it exploded Saturday on a busy road in Baghdad that leads to the revered shrine of Kadhimiya, according to the Ministry of Interior. ...more

December 28, 2008

Mystery surrounded a powerful car-bomb explosion Saturday that ripped through a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus, killing at least 17 people and injuring 14 others in the deadliest terrorist attack in Syria in more than two decades. ...more

September 28, 2008

One morning last month, Arwa Abdu Muhammad Ali walked out of her husband's house here and ran to a local hospital, where she complained that he had been beating and sexually abusing her for eight months. ...more

July 5, 2008

Authorities have arrested five militants and seized a cache of explosives they say were to be used to attack a religious celebration of minority Shiite Muslims. ...more

January 20, 2008

Millions of Muslims marked the zenith of the annual hajj Tuesday, praying for God's forgiveness here on a rocky desert hill, where, in Muslim tradition, Adam and Eve were reunited after leaving Eden. ...more

December 19, 2007

British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons plans to get back to the classroom once she finishes celebrating her release from a Sudanese jail. ...more

December 5, 2007

A British teacher jailed for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad as part of writing project headed home Monday after being pardoned, ending a case that set off an international outcry and angered many moderate Muslims. ...more

December 4, 2007