About 150 million Shiites are spread around the world, most of them in Iran, Iraq, India and Pakistan. While the Sunni branch makes up the greater part of the global Muslim population of more than ...

Despite their small number, the Bektashis are set to form the world’s newest country — a first-of-its-kind Islamic microstate ...

In a challenge to Syria's new government, an influential religious minority rejects calls to integrate its militias.

The attack was a key part of Al Qaeda's strategy to foment civil war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Iraq ... "When we discuss it with the population of Samarra, most tell us, 'If the Iranians ...

Its oil and gas wealth is marginal by comparison, and its citizens outnumber its population of foreign ... offshoot of Islam predating the Sunni-Shiite split. They occupy a strategic location ...