This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne. We've been hearing a lot these past few weeks about the extremist Sunni militants ...

Muslim worshippers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, in Mecca during Ramadan — Abdel Ghani BASHIR Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, and other Sunni Muslim countries announced ...

Sunni Dawate Islami scholars urged Muslims to counter hatred with love and a vice-free life, emphasizing brotherhood and ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — At least 25 people have been killed in days of clashes between armed Shiites and Sunni Muslims over a lingering land dispute in northwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.

The top cleric of one of the two long-divided branches of global Islam has called for Sunni and Shia Muslim leaders to meet together in a joint dialogue, using Pope Francis' visit to the Persian Gulf ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Six Shi'ite Muslims, including four teachers and two lower staff were killed in a shooting at a school in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday in what appeared to ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities with help from community leaders brokered a second ceasefire between warring minority Shiites and Sunni Muslims in a troubled northwestern region ...

Pope Francis has indicated respect "for Islam and Muslims" in a letter to the head of the main cultural institution of Sunni Islam, marking the end of Ramadan. Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar ...

Fully half of Yemen’s population – 14 million people – are on the brink of starvation. Some analysts blame their inability to access basic foodstuff on escalating conflict between two religious ...

Muslim worshippers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, in Mecca during Ramadan - Copyright AFP/File Abdel Ghani BASHIR Muslim worshippers pray around the ...