Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban rulers have detained several Islamic clerics. Most of those incarcerated have publicly ...

Maurice Williams was just 24 years old, working as a news reporter for Howard University’s WHUR-FM radio, when he was shot to death during a 1977 takeover of a city government building and two ...

Muslim ambassadors from Iran, Egypt and Pakistan worked with police to convince the gunmen, all Hanafi Muslims, to surrender. It came to be known as the Hanafi Siege, and it is the focus of a ...

Abdul Nuh, a fellow member of DC’s Hanafi Muslim sect, toted a machete. The two men climbed the stairs to the fifth floor, where they took a police officer hostage and ordered everyone they saw to hit ...

I'm Muslim and I'll die for my faith. It's a joke. It's misrepresenting the Muslim faith. The 1977 Hanafi Siege dragged on for 39 hours, prompted Associated Press articles headlined "Moslem ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — Thursday marked 40 years since members of an African American Hanafi Muslim sect forced their way with guns drawn into three buildings in DC: B'nai B'rith, the Islamic Center ...

If a Hollywood writer had scripted the Hanafi Muslim siege, you would have thought it outlandish. All those coincidences, connections, twists and turns. . . . But it was all true. On March 9 ...

Muslim ambassadors from Iran, Egypt and Pakistan worked with police to convince the gunmen, all Hanafi Muslims, to surrender. Muzikir, one of the gunmen, is now living with his wife and daughter ...

On this day, March 9, in 1977, 12 armed Hanafi Muslims seized three buildings in the District, including city hall, killing two people and taking 149 hostage. Killed were young radio reporter ...