To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling ...

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However, Alawites follow Muhammad Ibn Nusayr, who was a 10th-century disciple of the 11th imam and declared himself to be the ...

He was accused of planning to carry out bombings and arson attacks to disrupt power supplies and stage accidents on major ...

Countries are evacuating their nationals from Israel and Iran by air, land and sea as conflict rages between the bitter Middle East rivals. Days of attacks and reprisals by the two enemies ...

The Iran-Israel conflict has shuttered airspace across the Middle East as the two bitter enemies launch attacks and reprisals at one another. The worsening security situation has seen ...

Iran struck the largest hospital in southern Israel, the Israeli military said. President Trump has offered no timetable on ...

Total population: 3.1 million Muslim population: 2.2 million (70%) Background: Religious worship was banned in Albania until the transition from Stalinist state to democracy in the 1990s. Islam is now ...

A new report titled “How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020” finds that Islam was the fastest-growing major religion over the decade, expanding by 21% globally, twice the ...

Islam has increased its share of the world population, the Pew Research Center found in a report released Monday. The Muslim population increased by 1.8 percentage points to 25.6 percent, according to ...

Islam: Fastest-growing major religion. Islam experienced the most rapid growth, adding 347 million adherents and reaching approximately 2 billion followers by 2020.

Here are five key takeaways from Pew’s new analysis of the global religious landscape. Christianity is the world’s largest faith group, but it’s not keeping pace with global population growth. In 2010 ...