Angry young Afghans poured into the streets of Kabul today, tore down billboards and posters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini across the city, and condemned Iran’s growing influence in Afghanistan.

Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini, a descendant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, told The Times that the legacy of his family name was at ...

Apart from Iran’s Islamic revolution, for which Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini could claim only partial credit, his most momentous achievement was the February 1989 fatwa against author Salman Rushdie.

Crowds will be herded into the Khomeini mausoleum in southern Tehran to pay tribute to the Islamic republic’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who died 30 years ago, on June 3 ...

Unlike Iran’s Khomeini, the former Pakistani PM is neither a revolutionary nor is he seeking to overthrow established institutions as part of his so-called righteous struggle.

A small group of seminarians, seeking refuge, went to Imam Khomeini’s home. And they had every right to be afraid. What they had witnessed was, at the very least, unprecedented in Iran’s modern ...

Khomeini’s genius lay in his ability to sell a facade of freedom, while underneath, he built the foundations for a war against the very values that the West holds dear.

But the Penguin offices were soon inundated with angry letters and phone calls. The first major protests in the West were in Bolton and Bradford, ... Khomeini had done everything in his power to ...

Imam Khomeini, however, envisioned a different path; one in which Palestine, abandoned by international law, could only be liberated from Israeli occupation through some form of resistance. From an ...

Imam Khomeini (RA) transcended the realm of politics, embodying a spiritual and intellectual identity that profoundly influenced the course of modern Iranian history and the Islamic sphere. On the ...

Iranian protesters burn Khomeini's house and museum. Protesters on Thursday night set fire to the Ayatollah Khomeini Museum in the most direct act of defiance against the regime.