North Africa
Libya: Sufis under attack —again
With Islamist-led militia in nearly complete control of the Libyan capital, the historic Othman Pasha Madrassa in Tripoli's Old City was vandalized by a crowd of gunmen.
Tag: Sufis
Iraq
ISIS blows up birthplace of Saladin
ISIS militants destroyed the Citadel of Tikrit, birthplace of Saladin and one of Iraq's most important archeological sites. The jihadists meanwhile seized several Syrian towns.
Iraq
Best hope to destroy ISIS: indigenous resistance?
Indigenous resistance forces on the ground are fighting ISIS—but receive no solidarity from "progressives" in the West who make the question entirely about the US role.
Greater Middle East
ISIS eyes Mecca, pledges to destroy Kaaba
Saudi Arabia carried out a sweep of suspected terrorists as ISIS threatened to take Mecca and destroy the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, calling it a bastion of idolatry.
South Asia
Pakistan: Sufi leader killed in Taliban blast
Faqir Jamshed Ahmad Gesu Daraz, spiritual leader of Pakistan's Seraiki people, was killed in a bomb blast while driving to a celebration at a Sufi shrine in Pakhtunkhwa province.
Iraq
Resistance to ISIS mounts in Syria, Iraq
Forces both aligned with and against the regimes in Iraq and Syria are mobilizing in both countries to beat back ISIS—Shi'ites, Sufis, Ba'athists and the secular civil resistance.
Africa
Deadly Ramadan in Somalia
Militant group al-Shabab has lived up to its promise to step up attacks in Somalia, mainly against government installations and personnel, during the holy month of Ramadan.
Iraq
Iraq: cultural cleansing in Mosul
The ISIS militants that have seized Mosul are engaged in a campaign of cultural cleansing—targeting not only the citiy's inhabitants, but its artistic and historical treasures.
Iraq
Iraq: Sufis resist ISIS in Kirkuk
Fighting erupted between ISIS and militants of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order in Kirkuk governorate, as the Sunni rebel coalition that has seized a third of Iraq starts to fray.
Greater Middle East
Syria: ISIS destroy Sufi shrine, impose jizya tax
Qaeda-aligned insurgent group ISIS destroyed a Sufi Muslim shrine in Syrian Kurdistan and announced a "jizya" tax on non-Muslims in their zones of control.
South Asia
Pakistan: jihadis step up attacks on Sufis
Gunmen attacked a Sufi religious gathering in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, leaving eight dead—the latest in a wave of such attacks by Deobandi fundamentalist militants.
Iran
Iran: protest conviction of Sufi activists
Human Rights Watch called upon Iran’s judiciary to drop charges and quash the verdicts against 11 members of a Sufi order convicted in what the rights group called unfair trials.