While Shiites have remained a minority throughout most of the Islamic world, they are still the majority in Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. These areas — primarily ...

Sunni-led allies of Saudi Arabia have cut diplomatic ties with Shiite Iran, further polarizing the Middle East along the two major branches of Islam. But while almost all of the governments are ...

The Middle East divide between Sunni and Shia explained in one map. ... The majority of the world’s Muslims are Sunni, between 85 and 90 per cent according to most counts, ...

Map: More Than a Third of the World’s Shia Muslims Live in Iran. Roll over a country bubble to see the percentage of its Muslim population that is Shia and the percentage of the world Shia population ...

Shiite Muslims are commemorating Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave ...

Kuwaiti Shia women gathered outside the Bahraini embassy in Kuwait City today Wednesday 16 in protest at the crackdown .In Kuwait, Shias make up around 30 per cent of the 1.15 million citizens ...

These demands still reverberate in Iraq’s corridors of power — and its streets. While negotiations were delayed for years, Coalition Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, the 30-nation force ...

Ashura, in Sunni and Shia Islam, in the Arab World and Iran Nov 13, 2013, 3:41 PM Edit. Share. Copy link; Send by email; ... Thursday, a date which divides Sunni and Shia Muslims.

If you pay attention to the debate over western involvement in the Middle East, you’ll eventually hear someone explain the United States and its allies have blundered into an age-old sectarian ...

On a broader level, Obama tried to soften the Sunni-Shiite tensions in the region by ignoring or transcending them—pursuing what he saw as American interests, irrespective of the local regimes ...

The execution of a Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia has split the Middle East along sectarian lines Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser ...