Maple Mirzaiyun, the head of the ACU students’ union, says she has found the university a tolerant place.Credit: Flavio Brancaleone The appointment of the Australian Catholic University’s vice ...

Shia vs Sunni in Syria: Syria, a country which constitutes 74% Sunni population was being ruled by Bashar al-Assad, affiliated with the Alawite sect, a syncretic sect with links to early Shi’ism ...

Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni lawmakers last year introduced three bills which later became a headache for the parliament as discussions and voting on them were repeatedly delayed due to agreements.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Sunni Azm Alliance on Sunday called for ... community have been unjustly imprisoned since 2003 in Shiite-dominated Iraq, over alleged terrorism links.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Shiite pilgrims dressed in black marched ... unseated last month in a lightning offensive led by the Sunni Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Iran-allied groups ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A parade of Wall Street luminaries is due to testify in a hotly anticipated case starting on Friday ...

The main road connecting Parachinar, which has become a battleground between Shia and Sunni Muslims, has also been closed for the past three months. In fact, there has been a history of heavy ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Shiite pilgrims dressed in black marched on Saturday, heading on foot toward the golden twin-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim in the northwestern Baghdad ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister ...