The announcement by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban Islamic militia that it is demolishing two standing Buddha statues -- one believed to be the tallest in the world -- because they are "un-Islamic ...

The division has its roots in a rift between the Sunni and Shia disciplines of Islam that opened 1,400 years ago.

Workers cover the statue of the Chinese warrior god known variously as Kwan Sing Tee Koen, Kwan Kong, Kuan-Ti or Guan-Yu, in Tuban, East Java.

Muslims believe in one God, Allah, who has many characteristics. Muhammad was the final prophet of Islam, to whom God revealed the Qur’an. There are two main branches of Islam, called Sunni and ...

Indonesia has urged officials to stand up to mob pressure after Muslim and nationalist protesters called for a 30-metre-tall (100-ft-) statue of a Chinese deity erected in a temple complex in an ...

And they are now buried peacefully beside one another." Today, Sunni-Shiite conflict pervades the Middle East and "loving" might not be the first descriptor of Islam that comes to mind.

Although Sunni and Shiite Muslims are both sects of the Islamic faith, the differences between these two groups stem from conflicting religious beliefs.

Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites found rare common ground yesterday in condemning the bombing of a statue of the Abassid caliph who founded Baghdad in the 8th century.

MOSUL Iraq (Reuters) - Militant Sunni Islamists who seized swathes of northern Iraq last week have destroyed symbols of Iraq's heritage in the city of Mosul, including statues of cultural icons ...

Muslims believe in one God, Allah, who has many characteristics. Muhammad was the final prophet of Islam, to whom God revealed the Qur’an. There are two main branches of Islam, called Sunni and ...

Indonesia has urged officials to stand up to mob pressure after Muslim and nationalist protesters called for a 30-metre-tall (100-ft-) statue of a Chinese deity erected in a temple complex in an East ...