The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is ruled by a Sunni ... House of Saud, with 90 per cent of the population adherents of their leaders’ faith. The Islamic Republic of Iran, meanwhile, is ...

Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Bahrain have a Shia majority, though the latter is ruled by the Sunni House of Khalifa. In Yemen, the conflict has become a sectarian proxy war, with Iran backing the ...

analysts say Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has played more of a coordinating role in bringing together divided Shia armed groups and reaching out to Sunni ones — a role at which the Iranian ...

No one can understand the civil war in Syria, the feud between Saudi Arabia and Iran, or growing Middle East tensions without an understanding of the Sunni-Shia schism. So shows Eland publisher ...

No one — not Washington, nor the establishment press — seems ready to confront the Sunni-Shia conflagration that ... during its revolution. The White House has been criticized not being ...

Bahrain remains divided while the turmoil affects other states in the region. For instance, one reason why the Islamist Shia government of Iraq has struck at Iraqi Sunni leaders in the past few ...

Saudi Arabia is of course the land where the Prophet Mohammed lived, and the House of Saud sees itself ... movement split into two camps, Sunni and Shia. The proximate cause was a difference ...

The disagreement between Sunni and Shia interpretations of Islam is where The House Divided begins, and a question to which it returns; but it ranges more widely.