In this captivating journey through history, explore how the Umayyad Caliphate expanded its empire to achieve one of the largest territorial conquests in the world. Unravel the strategic, political, ...

The Sunni extremist group currently wreaking havoc across Syria and Iraq announced it has established an Islamic caliphate across the two countries. Here's what you need to know. In a newly released ...

Advertisements and registration links were removed from the Hizb ut Tahrir Canada website and social media, but new ones have since been published. A radical Islamic group's Canadian conference for ...

The caliphate has been revived — again. But unlike in previous instances over the past several decades when jihadi groups made claims to states or “emirates,” the Islamic State of Iraq and the ...

The Islamic caliphates had a long and glorious run, but in the 21st century, they seemed consigned to history. Simply put, a caliphate is an Islamic state led by a supreme religious and political ...

On June 29, 2014—or the first of Ramadan, 1435, for those who prefer the Islamic calendar to the Gregorian—the leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) publicly uttered for the first time ...

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The U.S. immediately disregarded the claims and questioned the lasting power of the group. “What they call themselves is up to them,” then-Pentagon spokesman Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said on July 3, ...

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The Sunni extremist group currently wreaking havoc across Syria and Iraq announced it has established an Islamic caliphate across the two countries. Here's what you need to know. A caliphate is an ...