The government of Tajikistan has banned Salafism, saying the Sunni Islamic movement represents a potential threat to national security. Tajikistan's Supreme Court on January 9 added Salafis to its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CAIRO (Reuters) - A Sudanese Salafi group in a statement on Thursday endorsed the Islamic State militant group that declared a ...

DUSHANBE -- Tajikistan's Supreme Court has banned the Salafi branch of Islam. Court spokesman Mahmadali Yusufov told RFE/RL's Tajik Service that "for the security of Tajikistan and defense of its ...

Islamic State’s Islamist utopia has taken hold of the imagination of small Sunni communities almost everywhere, including in Brussels, where suicide bombers killed 32 people last month. Its worldview, ...

Tunisian Salafis are stoking fears of a rising Islamist tide after the hardliners disrupted a string of cultural events they deemed un-Islamic, culminating in an attack that left five people wounded.

I NEVER ASKED MUCH of Hesham El Ashry, and Hesham never asked much of me. All I wanted was some conversation about religion and Egyptian politics with someone who had strong views on both. All Hesham ...

Shaheen Whyte is a freelance writer with a postgraduate award in Middle East and Central Asian Studies from the Australian National University. The Salafi creed has inspired a generation of Muslims ...