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

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia rallied Sunni allies to its side in a growing diplomatic row with Iran on Monday, deepening a sectarian split across the Middle East following the kingdom's execution of ...

President Trump is orchestrating a Mideast Sunni coalition that could become a buffer against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s attempts to revive its regional proxy armies. That cause, though, will be ...

TEHRAN, June 22 (Reuters) - Ten suspects went on trial in Iran on Tuesday accused of belonging to a Sunni Muslim rebel group whose leader was executed two days ago for his involvement in attacks on ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian authorities on Thursday arrested four staff members of state TV, accusing them of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims and close ally of the Prophet Muhammad, state ...

Hamzeh Safavi, a soft-spoken professor of Middle Eastern studies at Tehran University, is not unique among Iranian ...

A Sunni-Jewish Alliance? The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg predicts that Sunni Muslims will ally with Israel against the Shia Muslims of Iran. Sunnis make up the majorities of all Arab states, except ...

Oct 18 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 29 people, including several senior Revolutionary Guards commanders, in southeastern Iran on Sunday, Iranian media reported. State television said a Sunni ...