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 ...

What’s the geographical split? The majority of the world’s Muslims are Sunni, between 85 and 90 per cent according to most counts, and spread across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Some previous estimates, however, have placed the number of Shias at nearly 20% of the world’s Muslim population. 3 Readers should bear in mind that the figures given in this report for the Sunni and ...

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

Bahrain 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.

Sunni, Shia split means US troops might be in Iraq indefinitely© Top photo credit: Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, appears during a vote in Sudani's cabinet at the ...

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

Muslims worldwide commemorate Ashura today, Thursday, a date which divides Sunni and Shia Muslims. 23 Muslims were murdered in Iraq yesterday, because of this day and its heavy symbolism, and ...

In their formulation, Shiite extremists are terrorists; Sunni extremists, because they are fighting Shiites, are anti-terrorists. Trump said and did nothing to call them out on this deceptive logic.