A separate Israeli drone strike, north of Beirut, killed two people fleeing an S.U.V ... Sunni, and many in both communities are uncomfortable with the deference shown toward Iran. Many Shia ...

The report reveals that ISI’s plot involves using the ongoing Shia-Sunni tensions in the Gulf—exacerbated by the Iran-Israel war—as a battleground on Indian soil. Pakistan seeks to exploit ...

For months, Sunni and Shiite Muslims in ... invasion of Afghanistan and Iran’s Shiite revolution in 1979 dramatically altered the landscape. The map locates the Kurram District, and its capital ...

But the influx of refugees has exposed ongoing tensions in the country between its Shia, Sunni and Christian communities. Tripoli, from which many Australian Lebanese immigrated, is mainly home to ...

It has long been a flashpoint for cross-border attacks by separatists and Sunni militants, opposed to the authorities in Shia-majority Iran. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander ...

Since 2003 Shia-Sunni conflict has emerged as a major divide ... of the absence of a credible political process and road map to sectarian peace and state-building. The violence cannot be brought ...

Its beneficiaries are mainly Shiite Muslims, but in a country where a five-year economic crisis has forced many into desperation, Christians and Sunni Muslims have also turned to its services.

Sunnis concern about the presence of Iraqi Shia militia and Iranian commander near Fallujah city, west of Baghdad, said former governor of Nineveh Province Atheel al-Nujaifi on Thursday. ERBIL, ...

CAIRO — Last week the Salafi Call, an Egyptian Muslim Sunni movement, held an event in the Egyptian city of Alexandria ...

Each feature has its own significance. Sunni and Shia Muslims: What is the difference between the two, and is there a connection between this age-old split and conflict around the world?

After the death of Prophet Muhammad in 632, the Muslim world split into two camps, the Sunnis, who believed that the Caliphs of the Islamic community should be chosen by consensus, and a second group, ...

The outcry for revenge divided the early Islamic community, albeit disproportionately, into the Sunni and the Shia. This is known today as the Islamic schism.