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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Shiite Islam

A cleric walks in front of the Fatima Masumeh Shrine in Qom, Iran, February 7, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
February 21, 2023, 10:49 am
Even in Shiite heartland of Qom, Iranians quietly call for change
Though many support theocratic regime, mandatory hijab, some residents say anti-government protesters treated too harshly, women who flout dress code should be warned, not arrested
By AP
Jabbar Alwan, who lost four family members to violence, is pictured at the scene of an attack by Islamic States (IS) group members, in the village of Albu Bali in the Dyala province northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on January 12, 2023. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
January 19, 2023, 8:35 am
Islamic State attacks still claiming Iraqi lives five years after defeat
Security forces struggle to prevent periodic assaults by Sunni terror group while authorities strive to prevent violence boiling into conflict between Sunni and Shiite communities
By Guillaume Decamme
File: Hezbollah terror leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, as his supporters raise their hands, during the Shiite holy day of Ashoura, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
August 17, 2022, 9:37 pm
Hezbollah backers praise Rushdie attack, highlighting Lebanese Shiite divisions
Several of terror group’s opponents get death threats after denouncing author’s stabbing; assailant was radicalized during visit to his father in southern Lebanon, his mother says
By Bassam Mroue
Supporters of Iran-backed Shiite Coordination Framework attend a rally to denounce their rivals, followers of an influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who stormed the parliament last month and have since been holding a sit-in outside the assembly building in Baghdad, Iraq, August 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
August 13, 2022, 11:06 am
Rival rallies in Iraq underscore inter-Shiite power struggle
Supporters of Iran-backed factions hold protest in Baghdad to denounce followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, as jockeying for power has left country in political limbo
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Shiite Muslim men beat themselves with knives attached to chains during a procession to mark Ashura, three days ahead of the festival, in a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 5, 2022. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)
August 8, 2022, 5:19 pm
Shiite Muslims in Middle East mark solemn holy day of Ashura
Festival marks the 7th-century death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein; Shiites to hold mourning ceremonies across the region, including mass self-flagellations
By MEHDI FATTAHI
Pope Francis, right, meets with Iraq's leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, Iraq, March 6, 2021 (AP Photo/Vatican Media)
March 6, 2021, 8:47 am
Iraqi Shiite leader Sistani tells Pope Francis that Christians must be protected
Top cleric affirms Christians should live in peace; visit is a highlight of pontiff’s 4-day trip to Iraq, where Sistani played key role in tamping down tensions over the decades
By ANMAR KHALIL and Nicole Winfield
Father Nazeer Dako arranges a Vatican flag to welcome Pope Francis at St. Joseph's Chaldean Church ahead of the Pope's visit, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2021. (Khalid Mohammed/AP)
March 3, 2021, 12:53 pm
Pope Francis to meet Iraqi ayatollah in move laden with geopolitical undertones
Pontiff’s talks with Ali al-Sistani will implicitly recognize him as Shiite Islam’s chief interlocutor — over his rival, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and SAMYA KULLAB
Illustrative: Anti-riot police officers in Tehran, Iran, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
February 17, 2021, 5:55 pm
3 Iranian intelligence agents die in operation in southeast, state TV says
Operation reportedly targeted organized crime; area is also where a Sunni separatist group affiliated with al-Qaeda often operates
By AP
A woman has her temperature checked and her hands disinfected as she enters the Palladium Shopping Center in northern Tehran, Iran, March 3, 2020. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
March 12, 2020, 9:43 pm
Top Iranian cleric okays buying future Israeli coronavirus vaccine
Naser Makarem Shirazi, 93, a Holocaust-denying hardliner and one of the highest religious authorities in Iran, says using vaccine made by ‘Zionists’ okay if ‘there’s no substitute’
By ToI Staff
Iraqi Shiite cleric and leader Muqtada al-Sadr, center-left, shows his ink-stained index finger and holds a national flag while surrounded by people outside a polling station in the central holy city of Najaf on May 12, 2018. (Haidar Hamdani/AFP)
October 16, 2019, 6:41 am
‘No to Israel’: Firebrand Iraq cleric calls for mass anti-corruption protest
Tweeting against Jewish state, Moqtada Sadr urges millions of worshipers taking part in Shiite Islam’s largest pilgrimage to join demonstrations
By AFP
Iraqi Shiite Muslims take part in a mourning procession on the tenth day of the lunar month of Muharram which marks the day of Ashura, in the holy city of Karbala, on September 10, 2019. (Mohammed SAWAF / AFP)
September 10, 2019, 7:03 pm
More than 30 dead in stampede at Iraqi Shiite shrine
Over 100 others injured as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims converge on city of Karbala to mark solemn Muslim holy day
By AFP
Members of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah stand guard during a religious mourning procession on the tenth day of the lunar month of Muharram, which marks the day of Ashura, in Beirut, on September 10, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
September 10, 2019, 6:41 pm
Lebanese Shiites mark Ashura in show of anti-Israel defiance
At Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut, supporters of terror group say high turnout at religious event shows Israel ‘the great power of the resistance’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Members of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah hold their flags during the funeral of a Hezbollah fighter, who was killed while fighting alongside Syrian government forces in Syria, March 1, 2016. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayyat)
May 17, 2019, 4:31 pm
In a war with US, Iran could have these proxies fighting by its side
Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad in Gaza have arsenals of rockets aimed into Israel, while tens of thousands of Shiite Muslim fighters across region are beholden to Tehran
By AP and ToI Staff
Founder of the "Centre Zahra France" religious association Gouasmi Yahia (R), flanked by Tahiri Jamel (L), head of the Centre, speaks to journalists outside the center, in Grande Synthe near Dunkirk on October 2, 2018 after a police operation. (AFP PHOTO / Philippe HUGUEN)
October 2, 2018, 6:59 pm
French police raid Islamic center founded by Hezbollah supporter
Authorities seize weapons, detain three, freeze funds of Centre Zahra France, started by anti-Zionist activist
By Agencies
Illustrative: Saudi Shiite worshipers are frisked by members of security as they make their way to a hussainiya, a Shiite hall used for commemorations, in the mainly Shiite coastal town of Qatif, on October 16, 2015. (AFP/Hussein Radwan)
September 28, 2018, 5:06 pm
Saudi forces kill three ‘terrorists’ in restive Shiite region – state media
Intensive firing during shootout at ‘hideout’ in eastern region of Qatif also injures 3 security officers; Shiites claim discrimination in Sunni kingdom
By AFP
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