Peshawar: Death toll in Khurram tribal sectarian violence rose to 124 with two more deaths on Saturday as a gunbattle continued between Shia and Sunni groups despite a ceasefire in Pakistan's ...

Britain has an estimated Muslim population of about 2.8 million. Of these some 5% are Shia, the rest are Sunni. The historical split occurred 1400 years ago, following the death of Muhammad in ...

The Naidu administration stated that the Waqf Board had not been operational since March 2023, and it lacked representation from both Sunni and Shia community members, as well as former Members of ...

With some irony, America’s failure to secure the 2006 Awakening caused those Sunnis sympathetic to America’s aims to flee Shia persecution. Those “good guys” are thus not available in 2014 ...

Syria is the only Middle Eastern country that has a majority Sunni population but is ruled by a Shiite minority. The Assads, who took power in 1970, are Alawites, a subsect of Shia Islam that ...

Exploring the special customs in fasting, prayers and observances during the holy month between the Sunni and Shia Ramadan ...

Lucknow: Muslim leaders from both Sunni and Shia communities have voiced serious concerns over the Waqf (Amendment) Bill ...

Shia militias in Iraq have kidnapped and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months, a report by campaign group Amnesty International has said. The killings were in apparent revenge for ...

There are two main branches of Islam, called Sunni and Shi’a. This video shows a day in the life of Business Studies student and Shi’a Muslim, Faizan.