Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While worshippers were performing Friday prayers at the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque, a violent explosion shook the entire ...

A deadly blast tore through an Alawite mosque during Friday prayers in the western city of Homs. A little-known militant group has claimed responsibility as Syria's sectarian tensions erupt again.At ...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan, about the significance of the Imam Ali Mosque in the Iraqi city of Najaf and the adjacent Valley of Peace ...

Friday afternoon was far from ordinary in the Wadi al-Dahab neighborhood of Homs, as the city witnessed one of the deadliest attacks on civilians and places of worship in recent times. While ...