An ancient religious divide is helping fuel a resurgence of conflicts in the Middle East and Muslim countries. Struggles between Sunni and Shia forces have fed a Syrian civil war that threatens to ...

Since the sectarian war exploded in Iraq after the bombing of the Shiite shrine at Samarra in February 2006, it has become commonplace to hear about a Sunni-Shiite collision in the Muslim world. Does ...

Just as we thought Love & Marriage: Huntsville couldn’t get any messier, Carlos King, the self-proclaimed king of reality television, ushered in the messiest love triangle since Joseline Hernandez, ...

Muhanad Talib, a Sunni Muslim, married his Shiite bride because she was a "suitable woman" for him. It also didn't hurt that their vows made them eligible for a $2,000 payout from the government.

For a long time, the strength of Islamists was measured by how much violence they caused: attacks, land grabs, and the deaths of leaders. That measure doesn’t show the most dangerous things that are ...

“Iraq or Maliki! Iraq or Maliki!” shout Sunni Arab demonstrators as they block roads in western Iraq in protest against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and discrimination against their community.

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. In light of the current fighting in Iraq, which is along ...

David Ignatius is right to recognize the importance of historical legacy to the rise of ISIS. He is also right to criticize the embrace of an “80-percent solution” to the reconstruction of Iraq after ...

BAGHDAD—Militants killed 65 members of Iraq's Sunni minority in two attacks on Friday, one of them on a mosque, further inflaming sectarian tensions and imperiling an already fragile effort to form a ...