“Their aim, according to their beliefs, was to liberate the Grand Mosque from the apostate rulers of the Kingdom and to liberate all Muslims by the coming of the so-called Mahdi,” Prince Turki ...

AFP/ Getty Images Nine mausoleums and a mosque were destroyed in 2012 Mahdi admitted the charges and was remorseful. He told the court at the time of his verdict: "I would like to give a piece of ...

Many of the fake messiahs were picked up by security men in the courtyard to the mosque in Jamkaran, a village near Qom, whose reputation as the place of the awaited Mahdi’s advent has been ...

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi pleaded guilty to destroying nine mausoleums and a mosque, in the first case of cultural desecration heard by the ICC. It was the first time a suspected Islamist militant ...