Pakistan Unity Conference was held in Karachi, with the participation of religious leaders from both Shia and Sunni ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Forced by Sunni Arab insurgents to flee his home, Bassam Fariq Daash, a 34-year-old Shiite auto mechanic, bid a weeping goodbye last Tuesday to the Sunnis who had been his neighbors ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Mortar battles have erupted between Shiite and Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad, and the once-mixed city is reeling as the two sides adopt the weapons and tactics of urban civil war.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Tribal elders backed by local authorities in restive northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday brokered a peace deal between minority Shiites and majority Sunni tribes, weeks after ...

Sectarian violence broke out on November 21 in the volatile Kurram district of northwest Pakistan, near the Durand Line. The violence lasted for three days and resulted in the deaths of more than 80 ...

AZAZ, Syria (AP) – A Syrian rebel commander holding 10 Lebanese Shiites hostage said Thursday he is willing to release the men but fears doing so could set off a wave of reprisal attacks by Sunni ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Shiite and Sunni Muslim tribes in Pakistan’s northwest have agreed to a cease-fire, a government spokesman said Sunday, days after 42 Shiites were killed in an ambush. The attack ...

ISLAMABAD: The first convoy of passengers is set to leave for Pakistan’s remote northwestern district of Kurram, on the Afghan border, on Saturday after travel to the region was stopped in Nov 2024 ...

QALACHWALAN, Iraq - The Sunni vice president wanted for allegedly running a hit squad in Iraq on Friday accused Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of waging a campaign against Sunnis and pushing ...

SAYYIDA ZEINAB, Syria (AP) — At the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors raise their palms skyward or fervently murmur invocations as they press their ...