The US is losing against al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and other like-minded groups, which are all part of the Salafi-jihadi movement. US counterterrorism efforts have made Americans safer, but the ...

The absence of a 9/11-style attack in the United States raises the question of why the US continues to throw resources at the war on terror. To many, the eradication ...

Having played a key role in the conflict against the Houthis and separatists in southern governorates, Salafis now hold ...

Salafism, a complex and multifaceted conservative global Islamic movement, has become a topic of increased interest among a range of scholars over the last decade. Although worthy of study in its own ...

Tajikistan is grappling with how to enforce a ban on adherents of an ultra-conservative branch of Islam. At the same time, parliament seems prepared to adopt a new law on religion that, critics say, ...

Dozens of organisations in Bosnia are involved in organising lectures by Salafi preachers who stand accused of promoting intolerance and questioning basic human rights. And some are funded from state ...

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, ...

DUSHANBE (RFE/RL) -- Police in Dushanbe have detained the alleged leader of the banned Salafi movement, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. Eshoni Sirojiddin and 40 followers were performing evening ...

With little political experience but a huge religious following, Egypt's ultraconservative Salafi movement has pulled off the biggest surprise yet of Egypt's first-round parliamentary elections by ...