The Islamic State is a Sunni Muslim group. Yet many Sunnis have abandoned their homes and fled areas where ISIS has taken over in Iraq. But that... Sunnis Flee The Islamic State, But Still Fall Under ...

The 2025 edition will be held under the central theme “Celebrating 1500 Years of Guidance & Mercy brought by the Messenger of ...

The top cleric of one of the two long-divided branches of global Islam has called for Sunni and Shia Muslim leaders to meet together in a joint dialogue, using Pope Francis' visit to the Persian Gulf ...

The disproportionate representation of individuals from Central Asian countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, in comparison to other countries, highlights the historical and ...

Muslim worshippers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, in Mecca during Ramadan — Abdel Ghani BASHIR Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, and other Sunni Muslim countries announced ...

ARBIL Iraq/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish troops drove Islamic State fighters from a strategic border crossing with Syria on Tuesday and won the support of members of a major Sunni tribe ...

When the Taliban-led government says it is implementing Islamic law in Afghanistan, it is referring to its own strict Sunni interpretation of Shari'a. There is no universal Islamic law, because ...

Mr. Ali is the author of “Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American” and is a co-host of the “Democracy-ish” podcast. In the past few weeks, most ...

Jonathan Laurence, Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). 606 pp., $35.00. Laurence instead offers a novel thesis. He ...

Math Sa, the ninth Oknha Khnour, poses inside a Kan Imam San mosque in Kampong Tralach, Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia, February 23, 2024. Credit: Chantara Tith On the outskirts of a village near ...

At an interfaith meeting in Martyr’s Square in Beirut with Lebanon's Christian patriarchs and Sunni, Shiite and Druze ...

The al-Nidaa mosque in northern Baghdad looks grand, with clean, modern lines swooping up to a blue mosaic dome. But inside it's squalid, with piled-up mattresses, cooking pots and almost 60 families.