Shia Sunni Conflict

Citing India as a living example of peaceful co-existence of people of different religious and ethnicities, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday called for unity between Shias and Sunnis.

Top Arab diplomats rallied behind Saudi Arabia on Sunday in a dispute with Iran that has threatened to derail efforts to resolve Middle East conflicts including the war in Syria.

A wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 15 civilians today as government forces pressed on with their offensive to dislodge ISIS militants from a major city west of Baghdad, officials said.

Joe Biden was a US senator from Delaware in 2006 gearing up for a presidential campaign when he proposed that Iraq be sliced up into three semi-independent regions for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. Follow his plan, he said, and US troops could be out by early 2008. Ignore it, he warned, and Iraq would devolve into sectarian conflict that could destabi...

The hereditary spiritual leader of the world's 15 million Ismaili Muslims Thursday compared a conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims to Ireland, urging the West to engage both branches of Islam.

Citing India as a living example of peaceful co-existence of people of different religious and ethnicities, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday called for unity between Shias and Sunnis.

Top Arab diplomats rallied behind Saudi Arabia on Sunday in a dispute with Iran that has threatened to derail efforts to resolve Middle East conflicts including the war in Syria.

A wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 15 civilians today as government forces pressed on with their offensive to dislodge ISIS militants from a major city west of Baghdad, officials said.

Joe Biden was a US senator from Delaware in 2006 gearing up for a presidential campaign when he proposed that Iraq be sliced up into three semi-independent regions for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. Follow his plan, he said, and US troops could be out by early 2008. Ignore it, he warned, and Iraq would devolve into sectarian conflict that could destabi...

The hereditary spiritual leader of the world's 15 million Ismaili Muslims Thursday compared a conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims to Ireland, urging the West to engage both branches of Islam.