The answer lies in the lawless borderlands between Pakistan and Afghanistan. That is now the stamping ground of the Islamic ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has released a report examining the decline in religious ...

Twelver Shiites believe in a continuous line of 12 imams, all regarded as descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is in a difficult predicament: he wants complete control over all of Syria but has lost the ...

On Tuesday, New York City radio host Sid Rosenberg asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio about whether the State Department ...

The province hosts a significant population from the Baloch ethnic minority, which practises Sunni Islam in a Shiite-majority Iran. On July 26, gunmen stormed a courthouse in the province’s ...

Reports from inside Suwayda described scenes of unimaginable horror. From the government's perspective the calculus was clear: The Bedouins are Sunni Muslims and therefore considered "believers." ...

While many Sunni Muslims in Syria also perceive the Druze as heretics, they maintained a greater degree of distance from the Assad regime and were less integrated into its security apparatus.