Both Sunni and Shia Muslims in Iraq celebrated Eid al-Fitr on the same day in 2016 for the first time in several years. Turkey, meanwhile, a country that is officially secular, uses astronomical ...

Late in the summer of 1988, in the last days of the long darkness in which a tyrant had shrouded his nation, Shia clerics had declared the coming of Eid. Local Sunnis, however, insisted the month ...

Iran's Shia shrines are visited every year by tens ... Museums and historical sites reopened on Sunday to coincide with the festival of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy month ...