Lebanon's newly elected President Joseph Aoun on Monday began parliamentary consultations to select a prime minister who will form a new government ...
Pakistani officials say tribal elders, backed by local authorities, have brokered a peace deal between minority Shiite and ...
The conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims remains one of the central features shaping the political and religious dynamics of the Middle East. Rooted in Islamic history since the 7th century ...
As Syria emerges from decades of dictatorship, people in the Assad family's ancestral home of Latakia province are both ...
Since 2003 Shia-Sunni conflict has emerged as a major divide in Middle East politics, and radically changed the regional context for U.S. policy. Sectarian violence is no longer just limited to ...
The glue that has held the Shi’ite alliance together is now disintegrating, and the Sunnis can smell blood. The Sunnis are about to open a can of worms. I sense that Iraq, too, might disavow the ...
The differences between Sunnis and Shiites they originated in the dawn of Islam and, in particular, in dispute over the ...
Srinagar, Jan 15: The President of Jammu and Kashmir Anjuman Sharia Shiaan and a prominent advocate for interfaith dialogue, Aga Syed Hassan Mousvi Safvi, Wednesday strongly condemned recent attempts ...
Srinagar, Jan 15 (KNS): The President of Jammu and Kashmir Anjuman Sharia Shiaan and a prominent advocate for interfaith dialogue, Aga Syed Hassan Mousvi Safvi, strongly condemned recent attempts to ...
It was in Kurram district in the last week of November that a passenger bus convoy was ambushed and attacked, leaving at least 42 Shia Muslims dead. The attack sparked a wave of sectarian violence ...
Sunni M. Khalid is a veteran of more than 40 years in journalism, having worked in print, radio, television, and web journalism. He has worked for Time magazine, USA TODAY, The Wilmington News-Journal ...