Editor's Note: Back in 2007, NPR reported on the Shiite-Sunni split that was contributing to conflicts in many parts of the Muslim world, including Iraq. In light of the current fighting in Iraq ...

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Four years ago this was a city where people mixed freely — where, in most parts of town, no one cared if a neighborhood was majority Sunni or Shiite. Loyalty to Saddam Hussein was more important ...

During Syria’s civil war, protecting the revered Sayyida Zeinab shrine was a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and groups from beyond the country’s borders backing then-President Bashar Assad.

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 ...

He said both sides were working toward a truce. Kurram has been gripped by sectarian clashes between Shiite and Sunni tribes in recent years. Dozens of people were killed over the same land ...

It marked the first time that the Sunni Muslim extremist group has asserted responsibility for an attack in Oman. That the Islamic State, which considers Shiites to be heretics, targeted Shiite ...

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His death exacerbated the schism between Islam’s two main sects, Sunni and Shiite, and is mourned annually by Shiites. Zeinab's burial place is disputed; some Muslims believe it’s elsewhere.