The Sunni-Shiite split is most evident in the cold war between Saudi Arabia (Sunni) and Iran (Shiite). Since 2014 it is a hot war by proxy in Yemen.

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...

Khomeini’s war: Sunni Islamists taught Shia Iran to hate Israel The ayatollahs adopted the Muslim Brotherhood’s worldview to make the destruction of the Jewish state the regime’s holy cause.

Shia-Sunni Divide Blurs In Kashmir As Israel Attacks Iran It's not for the first time that anti-American interventionism has drawn the ire of Kashmiris as a whole.

More setbacks could follow. Bolstered by Sunni Gulf petrodollars, Mr Sharaa’s victory in Syria might embolden Sunnis in Iraq to rebel against the Shia-led government in Baghdad again.

Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunni Muslims from across central Iraq, alarmed by how easily Shiite Muslim fighters had attacked their mosques during last week's clashes, said Monday that they were sending ...

Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with ...

BAGHDAD - A spokesman for al-Qaida in Iraq said Friday that a Sunni Muslim war against Shiites in Iraq is inevitable and threatened relentless waves of attacks like the one a day earlier that ...

Syria ‘s defense minister announced a ceasefire shortly after government forces entered a key city in Sweida province on ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian government officials and leaders in the Druze religious minority announced a renewed ceasefire ...

Israeli airstrikes in Damascus and other parts of Syria began as a response to the clashes between Druze militia and ...