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 ...

Some say it's a strategy by militant Shiite groups to drive Sunni Arabs out of the capital. NPR's Corey Flintoff reports from Baghdad. COREY FLINTOFF: A color-coded map of Baghdad has been ...

New York As Izady’s map so strikingly demonstrates, essentially all of the Saudi oil wealth is located in a small sliver of its territory whose occupants are predominantly Shiite. (Nimr ...

The women and children are unwilling guests, rounded up as they fled with their male relatives in October from Jurf Al Sakhr, a bastion of Islamic State (IS), during a Shiite militia and military ...

Their mutual antagonism has its roots in the division between the two major sects of Islam, Sunni and Shiite, which dates back to the death of the Prophet Mohammed in 632 AD.

The current troubles started last month, when the religious police reportedly harassed Shiite women worshipping ... so he draws me a map of the Baqee Cemetery, a popular site for Shiites.

Communities inhabited by Shiite Muslims and President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority will be “wiped off the map” if the strategic city of Al-Qusair in central Syria falls to government ...

Gunmen killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan, the Taliban said Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country this year. Six other people were wounded in the ...