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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities with help from community leaders brokered a second ceasefire between warring minority Shiites and Sunni Muslims in a troubled northwestern region ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in ...

The division between Islam's Shiite minority and the Sunni majority is deepening across the Middle East. The split occurred soon after the death... The Origins Of The Shiite-Sunni Split Editor's Note: ...

The U.S. military says airstrikes have killed thousands of the extremists in the self-described Islamic State and has forced the group to retreat from some territory. But winning the trust of Iraq's ...

Relatives load the body of a victim, who was killed in a gunmen firing incident, into a vehicle at a hospital, in Parachinar, main town of Kurram district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...

A member of the Syrian security forces stands on a military vehicle in Sweida (Reuters) -Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's hopes of stitching Syria back together under the rule of his Islamist-led ...

Bedouin fighters at Mazraa village on the outskirts of Sweida city, during clashes in southern Syria on July 18, 2025. AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed In July 2025, clashes between the Druze religious ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 25 people have been killed in days of clashes between armed Shiites and Sunni Muslims over a lingering land dispute in northwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday. The ...

Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control Ethnic Cham followers of the Kan Imam San order are promised a better life if they convert to Sunni Islam, but many prefer to hold onto ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities on Thursday arrested four staff members of state TV, accusing them of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims and close ally of the Prophet Muhammad, state ...