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Topic: Shiite Islam

May 17, 2013
5:06 pm

Iraqis gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 17 (photo credit: AP/Adem Hadei)

Bombs targeting Sunnis kill 76 in Iraq

Attack comes after two days of explosions, many in Shiite districts, raising fears of new round of sectarian violence

May 16, 2013
10:11 pm

Bahraini anti-government protesters chant slogans and hold banners during a march in Daih, Bahrain, Friday, May 10, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Bahrain demonstrator jailed for flag ‘insult’

Prosecutors argue that draping the banner over a truck during protest flouts country’s new rules

May 3, 2013
6:24 pm

Syrian army soldiers, seen in the background, standing in front of dead bodies at Bayda village, in the mountains outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria (photo credit: AP Photo/The Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad)

Syrian opposition: Gov’t troops killed 50 villagers

Forces loyal to Assad regime accused of committing ‘large-scale massacre’ in Sunni town near Mediterranean coast

April 14, 2013
11:43 pm

Lebanese pro-Syrian Popular Committees fighters near the northeastern Lebanese town of al-Qasr, Lebanon.(photo credit: AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah-backed Lebanese fighting in Syria

Report confirms powerful Lebanese militant group is playing a growing role in the civil war just across the border

By Bassem Mroue

April 12, 2013
7:59 pm

Free Syrian Army fighters fire at Syrian army soldiers during a fierce firefight in Syria, March 18, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network)

Syrian troops battle rebels near Lebanon border

Combat at Homs province spreads as counteroffensive aimed at regaining control of territory around the country launches

April 5, 2013
5:35 pm

Salafi members of parliament in Cairo, February 27, 2012 (photo credit: AP)

Cairo ultraconservatives protest Iranian tourists

Salafi demonstrators in Egypt consider Shiites heretics and fear Tehran is trying to spread its practices among Sunnis

February 20, 2013
11:55 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and UN envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi talk during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, Dec. 29 (photo credit: AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russia offers to broker Syria talks

FM Sergey Lavrov says Kremlin and Arab League attempting to establish direct contact between Assad’s regime and opposition.

February 17, 2013
2:43 am

Smoke rises from the site of a bomb blast in a market in Quetta, Pakistan on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Arshad Butt)

Bomb rips through Pakistan market, killing 65

Attacks against Shiite Muslims on the rise in Sunni-dominated country

By Abdul Sattar

February 12, 2013
8:52 pm

Iran rejects accusations of arming Yemeni rebels

Following accusation by Sana’a, Tehran says claims that it arms Shiite insurgents in Arabian country are erroneous

February 6, 2013
2:59 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a press conference with Egyptian Sunni clerics at Al-Azhar headquarters in Cairo, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Egypt president hosts Islam summit amid divisions

Ahmadinejad, on visit, is publicly warned against interference in the affairs of mostly Sunni Arab Gulf nations

November 24, 2012
11:55 am

Shiites celebrate the day of Ashura in the Hague, Netherlands, 2011 (photo credit: Jan kranendonk/Shutterstock.com)

Lebanon arrests five Syrians in bomb plot

Suspects allegedly targeted Hezbollah for its role in supporting the Assad regime

By Yoel Goldman and AP

November 11, 2012
7:42 pm

Lebanese Army soldiers deploy after clashes between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, November 11. (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Zaatari)

Three dead in Lebanese sectarian clashes

Sunni and Shiite gunmen battle in southern city of Sidon

November 10, 2012
8:04 am

After being dispersed by riot police firing tear gas, Bahraini anti-government protesters return to the streets and resume their demonstration in Malkiya, Bahrain on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Hasan Jamali)

Bahrain: Sunni leadership strips 31 Shiite lawyers, activists of citizenship

US rebukes Gulf kingdom for policy barring all protest rallies

By Reem Khalifa

October 26, 2012
12:42 pm

A Syrian rebel watches over a government position in Aleppo on Wednesday (photo credit: AP/Narciso Contreras)

Hezbollah crosses Syrian border with bloody assault on Assad’s enemies

From the web Shiite militia is tipping the scales in the government’s favor, reports The Independent

October 25, 2012
10:26 am

This June 14, 2012 photo shows Syrian security forces at the site where a car bomb exploded near the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, visible in the background, in a suburb of Damascus, Syria (photo credit:AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

Iraqi Shiites fear for their Syrian brethren

Militant source says hundreds of Iraqi fighters have crossed into Syria to protect Shiite shrines

By Adam Schreck and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

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