PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Tribal elders backed by local authorities in restive northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday brokered a peace deal between minority Shiites and majority Sunni tribes, weeks after ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite clerics joined Sunni preachers in a march of thousands of mostly black-clad men Wednesday, trying to keep sectarian passions in check after a horrific attack on Shiite pilgrims ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Shiite Muslims are shouting anti-government slogans and demanding more freedoms in rare protests amid the minority’s worst confrontations in years with authorities in this ...

BEIRUT — Four Shiite Lebanese men were killed Sunday in an ambush near the Syrian border, boosting already high sectarian tensions and concerns the civil war raging next door will spill over. Gunmen ...

BEYANON, Syria (AP) – Anyone who tries to slip out of the Shiite villages of Zahraa and Nubl is risking his life. Sunni rebel snipers stand ready to gun down anyone who dares. Roads are blocked with ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The head of a Lebanese Sunni political and militant group that has joined the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in its fight against Israel on Lebanon’s border said Tuesday that the ...

Shiite rebels sweeping across Yemen met deadly resistance from both Sunni tribesmen and Al-Qaeda Saturday as they pushed south into mainly Sunni areas with the security forces largely absent. Yemen ...

Halbousi, a member of the Sunni Taqaddum Party, was elected speaker of Iraq’s parliament on Monday during the first session of the legislature’s sixth term, after Sunni parties entered the session ...

BAGHDAD, July 12 -- Iraqi politicians on Thursday struck a more pessimistic tone about Iraq than did the White House assessment, and said the deadlock between warring Sunni and Shiite factions makes ...

Even though they have a common enemy in ISIS, cultural and religious animosity between Iraqi Sunnis and Iran-backed Shiites may threaten Iraq's fragile military coalition — and derail the American war ...