Shia vs Sunni in Syria: Syria, a country which constitutes 74% Sunni population was being ruled by Bashar al-Assad, affiliated with the Alawite sect, a syncretic sect with links to early Shi’ism ...

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The Sunni rebels view Iran as their enemy and, of course, will not cooperate with it. As a result, the Shia crescent has been ...

Saudi Arabia is planning to execute five young Saudi Arabian Shia citizens and one Shia businessman ... Qureiris and al-Faraj are on trial once again, though Middle East Eye understands that ...

Aleppo was an important waystation on the Silk Road, which connected the Far East with the Middle East ... an offshoot of Shia Islam that had been marginalised by the Sunni majority.

The new law will require a Muslim couple to choose either the Sunni or Shia sect when concluding ... previously told Middle East Eye. "Therefore, if the amendments are approved this means that ...

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A draft cabinet line-up published by media outlets shows that the Free Patriotic Movement and the main Sunni blocs do not have representatives. Below is the line-up that PM-designate Nawaf Salam ...

AhlulBayt News Agency: Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Ahmad Iqbal Razavi, Vice President of the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen of Pakistan, said that the Parachinar crisis is not a Shia-Sunni issue ...