The issue was never resolved, and the two major branches of Islam that exist today can be traced to this early conflict ... be called simply Shia Muslims. Others are called Sunni Muslims, from ...

One of the oldest and largest Christian communities in the Middle East faces renewed threats in a cycle of violence that has ...

For Syrians observing Ramadan, this Muslim holy month is their first in their homeland since the end of the Assad family's ...

Iran is a Shite state while Afghanistan is a Sunni nation. The Sunni-Shia conflict in Islam goes back to the founding of the religion when the question of succession to Prophet Muhammad (peace be ...

Although Shia versus Sunni violence was the main driver of the calamitous 2003–2008 civil war in Iraq, the risk of renewed conflict between these two sectarian groups has lessened because they ...

Is a Shiite crescent extending from Beirut to Tehran emerging in the Middle East, as Sunni Arab leaders in Egypt and Jordan have suggested? Further, should Shiite revivalism be cause for concern ...

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – For Muslims in Saudi Arabia and most Sunni-ruled Middle Eastern states Ramadan will begin on Saturday, but in Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq it will start the ...

For over 50 years, the Alawite dynasty—an offshoot of Shia Islam—governed Syria, a predominantly Sunni nation. This rule, initiated by Hafez al-Assad (an Alawite) in 1970, abruptly ended in December ...

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The two men in their sixties (their names have been changed for security reasons), the first a Sunni and the second an Alawite, spoke at length about the situation in Syria. Their conversation on ...