This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for ...

In this succinct, probing survey of a major divide in the Muslim world, Louër explores relations between the Shiites and the Sunnis in seven different countries in the Middle East and South Asia. She ...

RIYADH (Reuters Life!) - History never really dies, at least not in the Middle East. Sign up here. The Fatimid caliphate, a medieval Arab Islamic empire based in Cairo, has been at the center of a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Shibley Telhami explains the history and geography of the Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam. The Kurdish people are also discussed in relation to these ...

ABBASIYAT, Iraq — The sons of this close-knit Shiite hamlet on a branch of the Euphrates River signed up to join the Iraqi National Guard this fall, eager to serve their country and help their large ...

Sunnis and Shi’ites may disagree on some matters of dogma and some details of Islam’s early history, but these differences are small — they agree on most of the important tenets of the faith, like the ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. The December 15 parliamentary elections in Iraq were the first since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in which Sunnis actively participated.

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A PROMINENT Sunni preacher is describing how the demise of Islamic State could herald a new era of Sunni-Shia reconciliation, when a Shia soldier at the checkpoint outside his home town of Samara ...

Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government has been in power less than two months, and minority Sunni Arabs — the dominant force in the nation’s relentless and bloody insurgency — are struggling to find a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...