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The State Department on Thursday officially deemed the Islamic State’s arms in Libya, Saudi Arabia and Yemen terrorist organizations. All three groups emerged as formal branches in November 2014, when ...

The US Department of State officially added the Islamic State’s branches in Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen to its list of terrorist organizations today. As State’s designation noted, there are now ...

Twelver Shiism is the largest branch within Shiism – one of the two major sects within Islam. Shiism is the second-largest tradition within Islam overall, following the Sunni tradition. Iran is the ...

Abu Walid al Sahrawi, when he was a spokesman for the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) Islamic State forces loyal to Adnan Abu Walid al Sahrawi, the emir of the Islamic State’s ...

Kazakhstan's newly created Ministry of Religious Issues and Civil Society says it is taking steps to ban the Salafi branch of Islam in the country. Minister Nurlan Ermekbaev said on October 14 in ...