An ancient religious divide is helping fuel a resurgence of conflicts in the Middle East and Muslim countries. Struggles between Sunni and Shia forces have fed a Syrian civil war that threatens to ...

The United States and Israel's latest unilateral declaration of war on Iranian cities has drawn attention to the reality that Iran is not just another state in West Asia.

The top cleric of one of the two long-divided branches of global Islam has called for Sunni and Shia Muslim leaders to meet together in a joint dialogue, using Pope Francis' visit to the Persian Gulf ...

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 ...

It has come to this: the hatred between Iraq’s warring sects is now so toxic, it contaminates even the memory of a shining moment of goodwill. On Aug. 31, 2005, a stampede among Shi’ite pilgrims on a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Jonathan Laurence, Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). 606 pp., $35.00. Laurence instead offers a novel thesis. He ...

Mr. Ali is the author of “Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American” and is a co-host of the “Democracy-ish” podcast. In the past few weeks, most ...