The announcement was made just in time to meet a self-imposed deadline to form an interim government in March, almost four ...

I was in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) last year for Ummra, and enjoyed a ride in the high speed train from Madinnah to ...

The emergence of Muslim groups, engaged in either religious outreach or political activism, alongside global geopolitical changes, has placed this interpretation of Islam at the forefront of political ...

Since the Syrian revolution transitioned into armed conflict—after the regime ruled out negotiations and used excessive force ...

The House of Saud has distanced itself from strains of Salafism, a movement within Islam that is intended to return the religion to the purity of its first three generations. Qatar got into a ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

According to the Global Terrorism Index, the current terrorism trend is linked to factors such as ethnic polarisation, state security abuses, and the growth of transnational Salafism and ideology.

Salafism, the Islamist ideological current that sought to inspire modern Muslim-majority societies by its understandings of the ideas and concepts that shaped Islam in its earlier phases ...