---
"title": "Iraq’s Unique Place in the Sunni-Shia Divide"
"description": "An ongoing and intensifying conflict has fallen along sectarian lines in Iraq, one of only a handful of countries that has more Shia Muslims than Sunnis. A Fact Tank post analyzes the divide between the two sects."
"date": "2014-06-18"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Benjamin Wormald"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion/2014/06/18/iraqs-unique-place-in-the-sunni-shia-divide/"
"categories":
  - "Islam"
  - "War & International Conflict"
---

# Iraq’s Unique Place in the Sunni-Shia Divide