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Iran, the world’s fifth-largest oil producer and third-largest gas producer, claims its nuclear program is for civilian use.

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Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...

Rights groups reported dozens of revenge killings resulting from Sunni militants targeting the minority Islamic sect, ...

While secularist historians emphasise this political pragmatism, Samira Sheikh shows how Aurangzeb’s Sunni bigotry arguably ...

Muawiya and his family converted to Islam. According to Sunni Muslims, Muawiya became one of the scribes of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and after the demise of the Prophet, he was appointed by the ...

The grand imam of Al-Azhar in Egypt, the highest seat of Sunni Muslim learning, called on Arab leaders on Tuesday to take a “unified stance” on plans to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

This seminary, founded in 1866, was the place where the Deobandi movement began. The revivalist movement within Sunni Islam advocated for returning to the core principles of Islam. After the partition ...

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – For Muslims in Saudi Arabia and most Sunni-ruled Middle Eastern states Ramadan will begin on Saturday, but in Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq it will start the ...

A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish descent, Saladin was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (which ruled over modern-day Egypt and parts of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen) and was the first man at the time of ...