DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Six Shi'ite Muslims, including four teachers and two lower staff were killed in a shooting at a school in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday in what appeared to ...

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 ...

Two near-fatal attacks on Saladin by the Nizari Ismailis reveal a Middle Eastern landscape far more complex than the usual ...

It was another bloody weekend in Iraq, and the violence seems increasingly to be a product of sectarian and ethnic tensions. Resentment between rival Muslim groups continues to grow — some families ...

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne. We've been hearing a lot these past few weeks about the extremist Sunni militants ...

At an interfaith meeting in Martyr’s Square in Beirut with Lebanon's Christian patriarchs and Sunni, Shiite and Druze ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — 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.

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 ...

Muslim worshippers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, in Mecca during Ramadan — Abdel Ghani BASHIR Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, and other Sunni Muslim countries announced ...

Israeli warplanes are targeting a town that appears to be controlled by Hezbollah militants. Shiite Muslims in Baalbek oppose the attacks, but Sunni Muslims, citing their own political preferences, ...

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

Muslim worshippers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, in Mecca during Ramadan - Copyright AFP/File Abdel Ghani BASHIR Muslim worshippers pray around the ...