The Diplomat: Is Khamenei’s Killing Narrowing the Shia-Sunni divide in South Asia?
A poster carrying a photograph of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with a slogan calling for Shia-Sunni brotherhood, hangs above a street at the Beckbagan Crossing, a Sunni ...
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 ...
The Times of India on MSN: A shadow war? The Shia-Sunni equation behind Iran's Gulf attacks
This infoguide is now archived. Sectarian conflict is becoming entrenched in a growing number of Muslim countries and is threatening to fracture Iraq and Syria. Tensions between Sunnis and Shias, ...
The conflicts between Shia and Sunni Muslims go back to the seventh century and the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Yet a spotlight has been shone recently on the differences between the two branches ...
The Hill: Mosul and Aleppo are trees in larger forest of Shia-Sunni conflict
Iran’s Islamic revolution, which brought Shias to power in 1979, and the Sunni backlash have fueled a competition for regional dominance. This timeline highlights Sunni-Shia tensions in recent decades ...
Why do Sunni and Shia Muslims live together in relative harmony in the US? In many parts of the world, Sunni and Shia Muslims are locked in bloody conflicts. But here in the United States, members of ...
The Hill: Beyond the myth of Sunni-Shia wars in the Middle East