Netanyahu dubbed this vision the “Abraham Alliance,” pointing to the historic April 2024 interception of over 300 Iranian drones and missiles by an ad hoc coalition of American, Israeli, Arab and ...

(RNS) Confused about the difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, whose conflict has accelerated in Iraq again? Here's a primer so you can sound smart at the water cooler. (RNS) Sunni and Shiite ...

The history of the Middle East is littered with defunct security pacts. In late 2004, Jordan’s King Abdullah II coined a phrase that would come to define how many viewed the Middle East’s emerging ...

Yusuf al Qaradawi harshly criticized Hezbollah which is backing Assad's regime in Syria Abdo: There's little hope of tamping down the increasingly tense relationship When the influential cleric Yusuf ...

Since the sectarian war exploded in Iraq after the bombing of the Shiite shrine at Samarra in February 2006, it has become commonplace to hear about a Sunni-Shiite collision in the Muslim world. Does ...

David Ignatius is right to recognize the importance of historical legacy to the rise of ISIS. He is also right to criticize the embrace of an “80-percent solution” to the reconstruction of Iraq after ...

While Shiites have remained a minority throughout most of the Islamic world, they are still the majority in Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. These areas — primarily ...

DUBAI, July 20 (Reuters) - Molavi Mohammad Anvar Rigi, a Sunni Friday prayer leader in the southeastern Iranian border town of Mirjaveh, was killed on Monday by unidentified gunmen, Iran's state media ...

Sunni Dixon's story seems to have happened quickly. The self-taught cordwainer founded the semi-eponymous brand Sunni Sunni, and within three years, it's carried in Saks and worn by style icons like ...