---
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://www.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