Healing the Sunni–Shia rift requires the Muslim world to confront its moral fracture and stand decisively for justice in all ...

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 ...

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 .

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The Sunni-Shia split is rooted in the question of who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad in leading Muslims after his death in 632. Shias say the prophet's cousin and son-in-law, Ali, was his ...

ASSIRIYAH, Iraq --Sunni and Shia tribal sheiks, local government leaders, senior Iraqi Army officials and local Iraqi Police officials from throughout the Taji area, met here Dec. 6 at the prayer ...