Nimr al-Nimr was just one of 47 people Saudi Arabia executed on Saturday, but his death laid bare the volatile divide that has cleaved Islam for nearly 1,400 years and now threatens to re-ignite a ...
Iran’s Islamic revolution, which brought Shias to power in 1979, and the Sunni backlash have fueled a competition for regional dominance. This timeline highlights Sunni-Shia tensions in recent decades ...
The conflicts between Shia and Sunni Muslims go back to the seventh century and the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Yet a spotlight has been shone recently on the differences between the two branches ...
This infoguide is now archived. Sectarian conflict is becoming entrenched in a growing number of Muslim countries and is threatening to fracture Iraq and Syria. Tensions between Sunnis and Shias, ...
A young man mourns at a funeral for a relative killed in an attack on the Shii'te enclave Sadr City in November 2006. It is believed that Sunni arab militants were responsible for the blasts, which ...
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. Big blasts ...
On March 27, representative of Iran’s supreme leader in India Abdul Majid Hakeem Ilahi was in Chennai to join the city’s Islamic community to pay tributes to late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...
While battles in major cities Mosul and Aleppo are well known, the public discourse largely and regrettably misses the forest for the trees. Ditto for White House’s failed policies on the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia's execution of Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr on charges of terrorism exposes both the fragility and the brutality of the Saudi regime. The Shia represent only about 15% of Saudi Arabia’s ...
But not all Iraqi Shia are sympathetic to Iranian encroachment. There's an ethnic difference (Arab vs. Persian), too, as well as bitter memories from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. And many Iraqi Shia ...
A leading Sunni imam with close ties to Bashar al-Assad was killed today, when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside his mosque. The bomber detonated himself inside the Eman Mosque in central ...
What are the major differences between Shia and Sunni Muslims? A significant root of the political maelstrom that characterizes the Middle East today is the Shia-Sunni breach, and hopefully these 7 ...
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