Syria has suffered its worst bloodshed since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power, with more than 1,000 people reported ...

The violence has pitted the Islamist-led government's security forces against fighters from Assad's Alawite minority. The ...

The foundation of religious life for Sunni Muslims, who comprise around eighty-five percent of Muslims worldwide, is known as ...

The Afghan Taliban adheres to Sunni Islam and follows the Deoband school of thought. It faces opposition from ISKP, which belongs to the Salafist school of thought. The latter is often described ...

The Muslim denominations were the Barelvi, Deobandi, and Shafi movements within Sunni Islam and the Ismaili and Bohras branches of Shia Islam, as well as general Shia Islam. The accord was led by ...

The developments in Syria are also a reflection of the titanic struggle between Shi’ite Islam, led by the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Sunni Islam, led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey and ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.

Prayers for Francis, meanwhile, poured in from around the world, from his native Argentina to the seat of Sunni Islam in Cairo to schoolchildren in Rome. In New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s central government has reached a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s ...

According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad’s prophetic status was well-established among his followers before his death. However ...