The grant push is only the latest in the civil rights group's decades of steering Muslims towards the institutions that ...

Supporters of the Crescent Gardens Cemetery, a dedicated Muslim burial site, say they need the graves. But some residents ...

Niki Nikbakht comes from a close-knit family. Her two elder brothers, Hadi and Fazlollah, are just two out of dozens of ...

Around the world, a total of 47 countries still retain capital punishment – including Pakistan. Barrister Sarah Belal founded the Justice Project Pakistan in 2009 to represent the most vulnerable ...

RFI: You are a barrister and the executive director of Justice Project Pakistan. How do you reconcile your work on the abolition of the death penalty while operating in Pakistan, an Islamic state?

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty involving an illegal alien who re-entered the U.S. after being deported and allegedly killed a Florida woman before fleeing to a sanctuary city. Bangladeshi ...

Former Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at his residential compound in central Tehran, in a joint US and Israeli attack on February 28 this year, will be buried on July 9.

Authorities have shut down streets, airspace and daily life for the mourning, which began Saturday and will end Thursday as Khamenei, 86, is buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, his birthplace.

Ceremonies for slain supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are taking place in the sacred Iranian city of Qom. Mojtaba Khamenei has yet to appear publicly since his father’s killing. Follow for live ...

There has been no public sighting or image released of Mojtaba Khamenei, the son who succeeded his father as Iran's supreme ...

Joe Buczek is manager of digital content and promotion at CBS Detroit. He previously worked at WWTV, the Grand Traverse Insider, the Leader and the Kalkaskian, the Oakland Press and the Morning Sun. A ...

The East Plano Islamic Center’s lawsuit against the Texas agency that regulates funerals can go forward, a federal judge has ruled. The agency had ordered the mosque to halt its religious funeral ...