BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s prime minister announced a new plan Monday aimed at ending the deepening crisis between Shiite and Sunni parties in his government and uniting them behind the drive to stop ...

I hope our grassroots work will push the leaders, but I don’t know.” His uncertainty is warranted for Iraq as well. Under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, the nation had a nominally ...

As it moves to try to reverse the stunning loss of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's largest Sunni province, the Shiite-led government is hamstrung by the sectarian politics it has failed to overcome ever ...

It was another bloody weekend in Iraq, and the violence seems increasingly to be a product of sectarian and ethnic tensions. Resentment between rival Muslim groups continues to grow — some families ...

Muslims from the religion’s two major sects in Singapore have been living harmoniously with a sense of mutual respect for over a century, said Syed Hassan Al-Attas, a respected Sunni imam (Islamic ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Shibley Telhami explains the history and geography of the Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam. The Kurdish people are also discussed in relation to these ...

I t’s unclear how damaging the death of Abu Musab al Zarqawi will be to the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. But the admiration of sympathizers like Hamas, which called him a “brother-fighter,” reminds us ...

BROOKE GLADSTONE: Since the violent extremist group ISIS began taking control of large parts of Iraq, a media narrative explaining its stunning rise has gathered force. It goes something like this: In ...

QARGHULIA, IRAQ — Despite persistent sectarian tensions in the Iraqi government, war-weary Sunnis and Shiites are joining hands at the local level to protect their communities from militants on both ...

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 ...

Egypt is the Arab world's largest Sunni Muslim country, but as a writer once quipped, it has a Shiite heart and a Sunni mind. In its eclectic popular culture, Sunnis enjoy a sweet dish with raisins ...

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