Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A firing squad in South Carolina on Friday executed a death row inmate who ambushed an off-duty police officer, shot him nine ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In the east Baghdad neighborhood patrolled by Capt. Mike Juarez and the men of Charlie Company, 1-8 Cavalry, Iraq’s most feared militia is keeping its head down. Since Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army ...

An Iraqi Army soldier from the 42nd Iraqi Army Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division provides security at Combat Patrol Base Comanche in the Sadr City district of Baghdad April 19. (US Air Force ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death in 2006 for the murder of an off-duty Orangeburg police captain. Mahdi was in the middle of a multi-state crime spree during which he also killed a convenience store ...

Because Islam borrowed a great deal from Judaism and Christianity, it is not surprising that they too have a figure with a messianic complex—the Mahdi, or the Guided One. Muslims see the Mahdi as a ...

A burnt ancient manuscript at the Ahmed Baba Centre for Documentation and Research, in Timbuktu. Benoit Tessier/Reuters In the first of its kind, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has delivered ...