Stephen Schwartz is the author of "The Two Faces of Islam" and director of the Islam and Democracy Program at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C. Saudi Arabia and its ...

In a rare congressional hearing on Saudi funding of extremism, two U.S. senators and a panel of terrorism experts said yesterday that top Saudi officials and institutions spend huge sums from the ...

The United States appears to have taken sides in the great Middle East confrontation between Shia Islam and Sunni Islam, which is to say, in geopolitical terms, between Iran and Saudi Arabia. We have ...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud royal family are trying to adjust their relationship with the country's strict Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam as they increasingly view the teachings of ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- When university professor Khalid al-Dakhil was growing up, clergymen had a say in everything. Following the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, an 18th-century preacher ...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's harsh religious tradition is seen by many outsiders - and some Saudi liberals - as a root cause of the international jihadist threat that has inflamed the Middle East ...

A Kosovo imam is demanding 40,000 euros in damages for an article published in 2016 that named him as a local leader of the extremist Wahabi movement. Kosovo imam Enes Goga (right), presenting at ...

Mention of Saudi Arabia conjures images of a fundamentalist kingdom where the government prohibits women from driving and forbids non-Muslims from holding religious services. The roots of the ...