Many Muslims believed that Abu-Bakr, the Prophet’s closest companion would be the first Caliph (which means ‘deputy to God’s Prophet’). This is the Sunni viewpoint. A minority believed tha ...

Qatar's President Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani made the first official visit to Syria after the interim government was ...

Islamic State, the Sunni Muslim terrorist group, has claimed previous attacks in and around the shrine, including last year and a bombing in 2017 that killed at least 40 people. The granddaughter ...

The relations between India and Indonesia are thousands of years old. Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, ...

The onslaught that saw the paramilitaries lose their lives was claimed by the Baloch Liberation Army, a group behind rising violence in Balochistan province that borders Afghanistan and Iran.

Shia vs Sunni in Syria: Syria ... which had very close relations with the Bashar al-Assad regime. Notably, the Islamic Republic of Iran is predominantly Shia, with the majority of Iranians ...