BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 -- Sunni Arab voters turned out in force for Iraq's constitutional referendum Saturday as insurgents largely suspended attacks, granting Sunnis a chance to try to defeat the ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Fighting between armed Sunni and Shiite groups in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 37 people and injured 25 others, a senior police officer from the region said ...

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Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political bloc ended a nearly yearlong boycott of the Shiite-led government yesterday in another step toward healing the sectarian rifts that once brought almost daily ...

AZ ZUBAYR, Iraq — Iraqi leaders condemned Britain’s decision to withdraw troops, saying yesterday that it would lead to a bloodbath and ethnic cleansing. After the Daily Telegraph reported that troop ...

Shiites and Sunnis are two main sects of Islam that are often at war, a split that dates back to when Muhammad, the founder of Islam, died in the year 632, leading to a never-ending dispute over his ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's Shiite clerical leadership Friday called on all Iraqis to defend their country from Sunni militants who have seized large swaths of territory, and a U.N. official expressed ...

SAYYIDA ZEINAB, Syria (AP) — At the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors raise their palms skyward or fervently murmur invocations as they press their ...

A bloody February in Iraq led to at least 700 civilian deaths in the course of the month, as the violent Sunni-Shiite clashes that have worsened since the withdrawal of U.S. forces continued unabated.