(RNS) — It was at the end of a religious service in the first 10 days of Muharram, some of the holiest days of the year for Shia Muslims, that news broke about the series of killings of Muslim men in ...

Recently, The Daily Campus reported on an incident that occurred in early February, where turbahs — small pieces of molded clay many Shia Muslims use during prayer — that had been donated for students ...

As the old adage has it, all politics is local. That might seem a quaint idea in an age of social media and global connectivity. And yet, as a study co-led by an MIT political scientist finds, it may ...

As Sunni jihadists and Shia militias square off across much of the Middle East, should nearby India be rooting for one side to prevail? On the face of it, the answer seems obvious. Sunni ...

What I remember most about serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Iraq was realizing the extraordinary level of hatred that the Sunnis and Shia Arabs had for each other. To understand Iraq today, one ...

Timing matters for this devout administration. Religious doctrine determined military action against U.S. bases in Iraq. The rocket attacks commenced at roughly the same hour as Soleimani’s “martyrdom ...

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