Furthermore, RFE/RL’s Echo of the Caucasus reports that in August 2008, Tatunashvili was serving as part of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent in Iraq, and therefore could not have ...

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This is surprising given that followers of Islam predominantly inhabit the area ... that the organization responsible was Wilayate Caucasus, the local branch of the Islamic State in the North ...

Following the example of their Messiah, thousands of Jews converted to Islam as well ... the Crimea, the Caucasus, Kenya, Nigeria, Armenia, Persia, Central Asia, North Siberia, West Africa ...

Jacques Jomier attributes this phenomenon to the way Islam moves through the world: Islam is like a clear stream, with well defined characteristic, which is the same everywhere. But the soil over ...

Wahhabism is an ultra-conservative form of Sunni Islam followed by Saudi Arabia's ruling family and religious establishment. IS made the claim in the name of its so-called "Caucasus Province", the ...

This essay looks at the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia and how religious belief and expression fit with extant and modern polictical and economic infrastructures. It is difficult to determine ...

Introduced to the Caucasus from Daghestan by adherents of ... The Chechen flag: The color green and the wolf represent Islam and the Chechen people. The nine stars represent the tukums, or tribes ...

The word 'Islam' in Arabic means submission to the will of God. Followers of Islam are called Muslims. Muslims believe there is one true God Allah (the Arabic word for God). Muslims believe that ...

The nation straddles Europe and Asia, bounded by the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains ... governing First Presidency welcomed Sheik ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade, described as “one ...

After a night of snowfall—the first of the season in Svaneti, a region high in Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains—the day has broken with icy clarity. Suddenly visible above the village of ...