SAYYIDA ZEINAB, Syria (AP) — At the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors ...

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Their children are forced to profess the Sunni faith," he explained ... another ethnic minority in Afghanistan who are predominantly Shiite, continue to be persecuted. The Taliban only accept ...

Shiite Iran, the Muslim brotherhood, Sunni extremist groups such as ISIS, and the reemergence of Turkey as a regional powerhouse. Indeed, those 1948 Palestinian refugees who wish “death to ...

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Iraqi Shiite militias and political factions are wary of al-Sharaa’s past as a Sunni militant and had pushed back against his invitation to the summit. During Syria’s conflict that began in ...

He helped al-Qaida form an offshoot in Iraq that attacked both U.S. forces and the country’s Shiite majority ... deep fissures between the country’s Sunni minority and the Alawite minority ...