He seemed not to have given much attention to ethnicity which would – and in Pakistan's case did – stand in the way of nation building. He himself belonged to a small ethnic group called the Khojas ...

Police say soldiers and members of a Shiite Muslim group have clashed in Nigeria's capital Abuja, killing six people.

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Sahar Diab had visited Damascus’ famed Umayyad Mosque previously. But as the Syrian lawyer went there to pray during her ...

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

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 ...

In the late 1990s, the Houthi family in the far north of Yemen set up a religious revival movement for the Zaydi sect of Shi'ite Islam, which had once ruled Yemen ... in regional tensions since the ...

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where they are "heavily focused on preventing conflict". He added: “There is growing fear that the situation could spiral out of control but security forces have so far managed to maintain calm and ...