So, just how many Muslim countries in the world are majority Muslim, meaning either Shia or Sunni Muslims comprise the majority of the people there? Muslim-majority countries span several regions ...

while Saudi Arabia sees itself as the leading Sunni Muslim power. This religious schism is reflected in the wider map of the Middle East, where other countries have Shia or Sunni majorities ...

Iran and Turkey are vying for dominance, impacting regional stability, alliances, and Israel’s strategic challenges in an ...

The Sayyida Zaynab shrine, located 10 kilometers south of Damascus, is a center of faith for Shia pilgrims from all over the ...

1920 - The League of Nations grants the mandate for Lebanon and Syria to France, which creates the State of Greater Lebanon ...

an offshoot of Shia Islam whose members make up one of Syria's biggest religious minorities. Alawites controlled power in the predominantly Sunni Muslim country for the 50 years of the Assad ...

Islamic State has previously targeted the Zayeda Zeinab shrine, including carrying out an attack in 2017 that killed 40 ...

Pakistani Shia cleric Allama Shabbir Hassan Maisami described the life of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (peace be upon her) as a beacon ...

The Zaynab shrine in Damascus is revered by Shia muslims around the world. It’s such an important religious site, Shia fighters from Iraq, Lebanon and Iran battled to secure and then protect it ...

Intelligence and security forces “succeeded in thwarting an attempt by ISIS to carry out a bombing inside the Sayyeda Zainab ...

Syria's Intelligence Directorate foiled an attack by the Islamic State group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in a Damascus suburb ...

Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a ...