Islam is a major world religion that arose in seventh century Arabia during the life of Mohammed ibn Abdallah, a trader who was born in A.D. 570. Some Arabs, including Mohammed, had begun to believe ...

In following a perverted but clearly identifiable strain of Wahhabist Islam, these (and other) fanatics preach that purity and salvation lie in submission, not in choice. Choice is reserved for God.

It was never going to be easy to rebuild Iraq into a coherent nation and overcome quarrels among the two main branches of Islam -- Sunni and Shiite -- and the ethnically separate Kurds. The Pentagon ...

As U.S. officials debate who should run Iraq after the war, one reality is the division between the two main branches of Islam, Shi’ite and Sunni. Dr. Phebe Marr, a historian and expert on Iraq, ...

Ask Rodwan Saleh if he is a Sunni or a Shia and his reply comes quickly. "I am a Muslim," says Saleh, president of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, an umbrella organization that includes both ...

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 ...

Quick. Without thinking or Googling, who are the senators from Wyoming? The Chinese president? What are the two main sects of Islam? Al Qaeda members follow which sect? Pretty hard, huh? A reporter ...

BAGHDAD - The civil war is between the two main branches of Islam -- the Sunni and the Shiite. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government is predominantly Shiite. The attacking force, ISIS, is Sunni.

ABOUT A THOUSAND years ago, did something happen in Muslim thought which made the Islamic world resistant to social, intellectual and scientific innovation? As Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish-born writer who ...

Why do they hate them? That is the question to ask in the wake of the slaughter of 53 people by Islamic suicide attackers in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, on July 4. This was no isolated local ...