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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A look at the politics of the Salafi movement in Egypt in relation to changing practices of religious media use. The movement is the political face of a much broader and diverse current within ...