The extremist organisation had existed as a mere “paper state” since its founding as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in ...

Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned for five centuries. They ...

The last caliphate ended with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, and establishing a state to be the home of the faithful has been the dream of Islamic fundamentalists for more than ...

Iraq was once the center of the Abbasid Caliphate and a hub of knowledge until the 15th century. It flourished in trade, culture, and innovation, becoming a beacon of progress in education and ...

calls for the upholding of Islamic law through a caliphate, a system of universal Islamic governance. The police consider this group to be a threat to national sovereignty, although it does not have ...

Both men were Syrian Nestorians, a denomination of Christianity considered heretical in the eastern Roman Empire ... the new Islamic world, Muslim patrons hired these men. The caliph Al-Ma ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed the establishment of the Islamic State caliphate in June 2014. Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo The fact IS termed itself as Islamic State, or ad-Dawlah al ...