Sunni rulers maintained their monopoly on power by excluding Shi’ites from the military and bureaucracy; for much of Islamic history, a ruling Sunni élite treated Shi’ites as an underclass, limited ...
Sentenced to death under Saddam for his role in the outlawed Shi'ite Islamic Dawa Party, Maliki spent nearly 25 years in ...
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 ...
BEIRUT — The Gaza war has pushed together powerful Iran-backed Shia Muslim paramilitaries with militant Sunni factions in what appears to be closer cooperation between groups that differ in religious ...
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 ...
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Faith and power: How religion still shapes the Middle East
From the Mediterranean coast to the Persian Gulf, the Middle East is a patchwork of belief, a living mosaic of faiths that ...
In west Baghdad's Omar al-Khattab mosque, a Sunni preacher assails his Shia compatriots for failing to come to the aid of the besieged city of Falluja. "Those of the black turbans" - Iraq's Shia ...
In Tehran, a declaration signed by 1,500 Sunni clerics reaffirmed that confronting the Zionist regime is both a national responsibility and a divine obligation, rooted in the Qur’anic call to “strive ...
Iraqis head to the polls Nov. 11 to elect 329 parliament members for a four-year term, marking the seventh free election ...
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