BEIRUT (AP) — A 12-year-old boy was among four civilians killed Monday in Syria ’s Tartous province, provincial officials ...

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 ordeal of this family of Alawites – a religious group that broke away from Shia Islam – unfolded ... committed against Al-Bayda's Sunni population by forces loyal to al-Assad in 2013.

The Taliban follow an ultra-conservative Sunni interpretation of Islam. Yet approximately 10 to 15 percent of Afghans are Shia ... Most of Afghanistan’s population of non-Muslims also live ...

Assad, who had ruled over a majority Sunni population, belongs to the minority ... Sheikh Adham al-khatib, a representative of Twelver Shiites in Syria, said many from the Shiite minority felt ...

Today, it is little more than a heap of ruins, where a scattered population of survivors navigates ... Alawite minority—the heterodox branch of Shia Islam from which the Assad family hails ...

Assad, who had ruled over a majority Sunni population, belongs to the minority Alawite sect ... Sheikh Adham al-khatib, a representative of Twelver Shiites in Syria, said many from the Shiite minority ...