Iran’s Foreign Minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, held discussions on Sunday with members of Afghanistan's Shia Scholars ...

A Muslim cleric who refused to call Hezbollah a terrorist organization and has a “significant history of extremism” has been tapped to deliver a benediction at President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

A key Iranian proxy is found among the Iraqi Shia, who have a history with Iran that goes back to the Saddam Hussein era but whose full value to Tehran only started to be realized after the 2003 US ...

The Hazaras are an ethnic group of Shia Muslims originally from central Afghanistan, but have fled repeated persecution, including at the hands of the Taliban, for safety in countries including ...

The conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims remains one of the central features shaping the political and religious dynamics of the Middle East. Rooted in Islamic history since the 7th century ...

According to the report, the new Sunni rulers of the country are seeking to take down the former Assadites, and the Alawites - a Shia Muslim minority group, of which Assad was a member - fear ...