BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Masked gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers and automatic rifles kicked down the gate at 68-year-old Abbas al-Saiedi's house, fired into the air and told the Shiite he ...

BAGHDAD (AP) – Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq’s ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate _ and unequal. Sunnis are locked out of key jobs at universities and in ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Political groups representing Iraq’s minority Sunni Arabs called yesterday for new delays in approving a national constitution, complaining that they had been cut out of final-hour ...

In Kurram, near the Afghan border, Pakistan has been helpless to stop the latest outbreaks of a sectarian conflict that goes back decades. By Zia ur-Rehman Reporting from Parachinar, Pakistan The ...

FILE - In this Saturday, June 14, 2014 file photo Iraqi Shiite fighters deploy with their weapons in Basra, Iraq. Iraq's Shiite militias have abducted and killed "scores" of Sunni civilians in ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunni Arab militants killed 14 Shiite militiamen and a policeman Thursday in a clash southeast of Baghdad - another sign of rising tensions among Iraq's rival ethnic and religious ...

The story of a divisive Islamic ruler from ancient times, produced by a broadcaster in the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has drawn rebukes from Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq. By Ismaeel Naar ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite clerics joined Sunni preachers in a march of thousands of mostly black-clad men Wednesday, trying to keep sectarian passions in check after a horrific attack on Shiite pilgrims ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Shiite and Sunni blocs in Parliament boycotted a conference on Iraqi reconciliation yesterday, as the American vice president, Dick Cheney, traveled north to meet with Kurdish leaders.

BAGHDAD, May 22 -- -- Iraq's new Shiite-dominated government on Sunday welcomed the end of a Sunni Arab boycott of politics, encouraging a newly formed Sunni bloc to distance itself from insurgent ...