Rallies targeting the Shia Muslims of Pakistan were orchestrated on successive days in Karachi over the past weekend. Demonstrators numbering in the tens of thousands — at least 30,000 according to ...

Islam's dominant sect, which roughly 85 percent of the world's 1.6 billion Muslims follow, view Shia Islam with suspicion, and extremist Sunnis have portrayed Shias as heretics and apostates. Source: ...

As the old adage has it, all politics is local. That might seem a quaint idea in an age of social media and global connectivity. And yet, as a study co-led by an MIT political scientist finds, it may ...

(RNS) — It was at the end of a religious service in the first 10 days of Muharram, some of the holiest days of the year for Shia Muslims, that news broke about the series of killings of Muslim men in ...

Recently, The Daily Campus reported on an incident that occurred in early February, where turbahs — small pieces of molded clay many Shia Muslims use during prayer — that had been donated for students ...

Syrias, Latakia is a home to the minority Shia Alawite sect - to whom the ruling Assad clan belonged, and which also provided ...

As Sunni jihadists and Shia militias square off across much of the Middle East, should nearby India be rooting for one side to prevail? On the face of it, the answer seems obvious. Sunni ...

Two high profile killings over the weekend highlight a growing problem that attracts little media attention in the West: attacks on Pakistan’s Shia minority by Sunni militants. On Saturday, gunmen in ...

(Abuja) – A Nigerian court ruled on July 26, 2019 that activities of the Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) amount to “acts of terrorism and illegality” and ordered the government to ban the ...

BEIRUT — They call it the “Shia question,” and it has occupied an ever great space in debates and discussions across Lebanon since Hezbollah began its war against Israel in support of Gaza more than a ...