Why Sunni-Shia conflict is worsening Geneive Abdo, Special to CNN. 4 minute read Published 6:36 AM EDT, Fri June 7, 2013 Link Copied! Syrian civil war in photos ...

Not all Shia-Sunni tensions are connected to Syria, at least not yet. Just last month, the Bahraini ruling Sunni monarchy banned all street protests nationwide .

The Sunni vision prevailed, but the bad blood was only beginning. Years later, the Caliphate’s Sunni troops killed the son of Ali bin Abu Talib, in an event commemorated annually by the Shia to ...

The Shia-Sunni divide is a war through proxies waged by Iran and Saudi Arabia. But while the Shia axis is relatively coherent (Iran, Hezbollah, Assad and to a lesser extend Maliki), ...

While Shia Muslims have often been the majority of the population in what is now Iraq, the country’s rulers have mostly been Sunnis. The 500-year Abbasid Caliphate, during what became known as ...

Watching pundits on TV, you’d think the chaos in Iraq has a simple source: It’s Shia vs. Sunni, stupid. “Iraq’s crisis is the result of ancient hatreds” bubbling for “thousands of ...

Before, Sunni Arabs reflexively viewed themselves as politically and militarily superior to the Shia Arabs, and the Shiites in turn saw themselves as a permanent underclass.

Over the last decade at least, the so-called Sunni-Shia divide has been a defining characteristic of the Middle East for pundits and other non-expert observers of the region.

Muslim scholars led by chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq met to 'address the recent provocative and deeply irresponsible ...

Another day, another bombing in Iraq. This one, in the Shia Sadr City slum in Baghdad, killed at least 33 people. The dead were among 80 victims found scattered across Iraq yesterday.

Why Sunni-Shia conflict is worsening Geneive Abdo, Special to CNN. 4 min read Published 6:36 AM EDT, Fri June 7, 2013 Link Copied! Syrian civil war in photos ...