Two countries that compete for the leadership of Islam, Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, have used the sectarian divide to further their ambitions. How their rivalry is settled will likely shape the ...

A dispute about who should lead Islam after Muhammad died ultimately split the faith into two branches, the Sunnis and the Shias. The young Muslim community faced a pivotal decision after the ...

Amnesty International has asked Iraq to reveal location of 643 Sunni Muslim boys and men who disappeared during an operation ...

For years, conversations about Islamic antisemitism in the West have usually stayed far too shallow. Most explanations follow ...

Hojatoleslam Mohammad-Taghi Vakilpour, the special representative of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, arrived in Sistan and Baluchestan on Tuesday to convey a special message to the local ...

SAMARRA, Iraq—There’s only one way in and out of this predominantly Sunni Muslim city: through the checkpoints of the Saraya al-Salam, one of Iraq’s most fearsome Shia militias. Samarra gained ...

For the first time since her childhood, Mariam recently went back to the shrine of Nabi Saleh, a tiny island off the shore of Bahrain’s capital, Manama. She reverentially held green drapes over the ...

Another day, another bombing in Iraq. This one, in the Shia Sadr City slum in Baghdad, killed at least 33 people. The dead were among 80 victims found scattered across Iraq yesterday. Big blasts ...

Fox Host Will Cain suggested on his program Monday evening that Iran may have been behind the shooting at a San Diego mosque ...

BAALBEK, LEBANON—Hezbollah’s yellow flags stretched for miles along the highway to Baalbek, a Lebanese city near the frontier with Syria. They hung from every light post, interspersed with images of ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with leaders of New York University's Muslim community about Shia and Sunni responses to the killings of Muslim men in Albuquerque, N.M. A conversation Muslims typically have ...