A decade after the United States ’ invasion of Iraq ignited a season of deadly bloodletting between Sunni and Shia Muslims, this ancient divide in Islam is deepening throughout the Middle East , aggravating political and ethnic tensions, inflaming emotions and...

BAQUBA, Iraq — Two near-simultaneous car bombs and a suicide attack killed 12 people in a wholesale market north of Baghdad Monday, the latest in a surge in violence authorities have struggled to control. The blasts, which left another 48 people wounded, struck a predominantly Shiite town...

Mihrac Ural or Ali Al-Kayali (his naked name) has appeared in demonstration against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan . The leader of the ''Public resistance'', An Alawites Militia in the Syrian coastal area which committed savaged massacres...