Shia Muslims commemorate Ashura to honour the martyrdom of Hussein. In Lebanon, the Shia community unites in the face of ...

Shiite Islam offers Iranians a standard it views as just. Iran calls itself an Islamic republic. Many Iranians may appreciate ...

Shiite Muslims are commemorating Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave ...

Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a ...

Lebanon was an amalgam of Christian Maronites, Sunni and Shia Muslims, Druze, and other communities, whose tenuous alliances disintegrated during its 15-year civil war.

The new leadership vowed to disband all militias. But the fiercely independent Druze have made no agreement, and say they're gathering fighters and making plans to repel government forces if needed.

In March, hundreds of members of Syria’s Alawite minority — another offshoot from Shia Islam — were killed in a spate of revenge attacks by Sunni Arab fighters in Latakia, on the country’s ...

The Islamist rebels now in power in Damascus were among the Sunni Muslim militants that entered Shia-majority Iraq from Syria after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, fuelling years of sectarian war.

Alawites controlled power in the predominantly Sunni Muslim country for the 50 years of the Assad family's rule, holding top positions in the government, military and intelligence services.