Salafi-jihadi groups linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State are spreading and strengthening in Africa. This phenomenon has immediately and severely affected thousands of Africans subjected to ...

Salafi-jihadi groups linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State are spreading and strengthening in Africa. These groups will grow more lethal over time as they develop military and nonmilitary ...

CAIRO (AP) – Internal feuds are threatening to unravel the political party of Egypt’s ultraconservative Islamist Salafis, as pragmatists try to shake off the control of hardline clerics who reject any ...

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

Mini Teaser: In the wake of Egypt’s revolution and subsequent elections, Westerners have focused on the Muslim Brotherhood. But the Egyptian Salafis, more fundamentalist than the Brotherhood, bear ...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) – Every Friday, bearded men in shin-length robes demonstrate in Tunisia’s capital against perceived insults to Islam in a country once known for its aggressive secularism. They ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - When Salafi Islamists objected to a youth forum on politics and religion in Kuwait earlier this year they took to Twitter and other media, but not to the streets. While the Gulf ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Salafi movement wants to model Egypt's future on Islam's past, a past they see as an example for the present. If indications from the first round of the country's parliamentary ...