Officials are examining a connection between Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and an imam named Anwar al-Awlaki (sometimes spelled al-Aulaqi). Awlaki, who is American-born but currently in Yemen, ...

NEWARK, N.J. -- Saturday morning, Newark's Muslim community laid to rest a beloved imam, as the search continues for his killer. At the NIA Masjid and Community Center, mourners bid a final farewell ...

More than 200 mourners from across New Jersey showed up at a Newark mosque Wednesday night to honor slain Imam Hassan Sharif who was shot at the site earlier in the day. Many of their pleas were for ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- A community is confused and in mourning after the Imam of a mosque in Newark was shot and killed and it wasn't the first time the imam was the victim of a violent incident ...

NEWARK, New Jersey -- Hundreds of mourners made their way into the NIA Masjid & Community Center in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday to pay their respects to Imam Hassan Sharif. Sharif died after he was ...

Was the Army psychiatrist who is the main suspect in last week’s Fort Hood shooting massacre a disaffected loner who simply snapped on the eve of a deployment to Afghanistan? Or was Major Nidal Malik ...

NEWARK, N.J.-- Members of a mosque are devastated after their imam was shot and killed Wednesday morning. Imam Hassan Sharif was fatally shot outside his mosque on South Orange Avenue and Camden ...

Officials are searching for the shooter in the killing of an imam outside a Newark, New Jersey, mosque, as they work to determine what led up to the slaying of the man remembered as a beacon in his ...

Today coincides with the birth anniversary of the 5th Imam of Shia, Muhammad al-Baqir. An overview of his life is provided in ...