Throughout the Middle East, Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran compete for influence and supremacy via proxy wars in Yemen, ...

Shiite Muslims are commemorating Ashoura, marking the 7th-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Hussein, that gave birth to their faith. The rift between Islam’s two main sects deepened after ...

Iranian-backed militias using kamikaze drones have been blamed for past attacks, and officials in Baghdad and Erbil vowed to ...

BAGHDAD ” Heavily armed gunmen on Wednesday abducted 22 Shiite shepherds who were tending thousands of sheep and had wandered into a dangerous Sunni area west of Baghdad, while six power plant workers ...

SAYYIDA ZEINAB, Syria (AP) — At the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors raise their palms skyward or fervently murmur invocations as they press their ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Sheikh Abed al-Khusai cooed to his faithful, "Come, come." About 150 members of the militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stopped pumping their AK-47 rifles in the ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Hundreds of angry Shiite Muslims protested electricity rationing by blocking some major roads in Beirut and its southern suburbs Sunday, forcing Lebanese troops to intervene, ...

The pontiff met political leaders upon his arrival on Sunday and will later say Mass at a Beirut port destroyed by an ...

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Read full article: Ralph C. Wilson Park set to open this fall in Detroit with free admission and family fun Police are seeking information about a 16-year-old girl who went missing in Detroit. SAYYIDA ...