At the call of midnight on December 31 of the year 2024, Switzerland has put in the practice of a new burqa ban, and in this ...

In 2024, the world experienced the on-going threat and menace created by Islamist terrorism. By radical ideologies as well as ...

Iran and Turkey are vying for dominance, impacting regional stability, alliances, and Israel’s strategic challenges in an ...

Pakistani officials say tribal elders, backed by local authorities, have brokered a peace deal between minority Shiite and ...

Shia fighters from Iraq, Lebanon and Iran battled to secure and then protect it over the course of this war. But everything changed this week: the mosque is now being guarded by Sunni HTS forces.

With the Shia Alawite sect making up only 10 percent of the population in the majority Sunni country, Syria’s de-facto ruler is trying to keep tensions from boiling over. Simona Foltyn reports.

A peace agreement has been reached between the Sunni and Shia communities of Kurram District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This was stayed by Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry in a ...

To complicate matters, turmoil in the region could also spill over into Iraq and exacerbate internal tensions. Although Shia versus Sunni violence was the main driver of the calamitous 2003–2008 ...

Unrest is brewing in Syria’s coastal plains, home to the Assad family’s Alawite sect. Earlier this week, a group of regime loyalists staged an ambush on the now-governing rebel forces, killing 14.

The differences between Sunnis and Shiites they originated in the dawn of Islam and, in particular, in dispute over the ...