Of these some 5% are Shia, the rest are Sunni. The historical split occurred 1400 years ago, following the death of Muhammad in Medina, in modern day Saudi Arabia. Muslims who wanted to select his ...

Edited by Liam Stack Sunni rebels swarm a Shia mosque near the town of Jisr al-Shughur in this video posted online Wednesday, climbing its roof and chanting religious slogans even as its lower ...

An Afghan man receives treatment in a hospital after he was injured in an explosion at a Shi'ite mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif ... important temple in Kabul. The Shia Hazara community experienced ...

Another worshipper was also killed at a Shia mosque in Verulam outside Durban in May 2018. Prosecutors have since accused eleven men accused of attacking the Shia mosque of also placing explosives ...

According to the agency, three terrorists carried out a suicide attack around 13:30 local time (12:00 Moscow time) triggering an explosion in the largest Shia mosque in the province, also known as ...

One Saudi police officer was injured in a shooting in Riyadh on Friday, amid a huge security operation across the country after two successive Fridays of suicide bombings on Shia mosques.