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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Sunni Islam

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
Taliban fighters pose for a photograph while raising their flag at the Ghazni provincial governor's house, in Ghazni, southeastern, Afghanistan, on August 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Gulabuddin Amiri)
August 16, 2021, 5:58 pm
Hamas praises Taliban for causing American ‘downfall’ in Afghanistan
Senior official in terror group lauds Afghan Islamists for rejecting US ‘compromises,’ democracy, and elections; PLO official in Ramallah condemns ‘dark and brutal’ Taliban
By Aaron Boxerman
Muslim World League Convenes Sunni and Shiite leaders from Iraq in Makkah to Bridge the Divide
August 14, 2021, 7:27 pm
Saudi-hosted Islamic forum defangs Iran’s regional influence
The Saudi-based Muslim World League brokered an agreement between Iraq’s top Sunni and Shia religious leaders, establishing a bulwark against cross-sectarian hostilities
By Paulo Casaca and Maurizio Geri
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
Controversial Egyptian intellectual reformer Islam Behairy. (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 29, 2017, 8:17 pm
Egyptian court orders ban on ‘anti-Islam’ broadcast
Country’s highest religious authority calls for cancellation of show presented by controversial intellectual reformer Islam Behairy
By AFP
Iranian president and presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani attends a campaign rally in the capital Tehran on May 13, 2017. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
May 13, 2017, 9:07 pm
Rouhani says Friday’s Iran election ‘historical decision’
President says Tehran wants ‘constructive communication’ with the world, tells voters to choose between peace and tensions
By Agencies
In this Dec. 28, 2012 file photo, Muslim men wait for the Friday noon prayer at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
May 6, 2017, 5:08 pm
Egypt university head replaced after calling Muslim reformer ‘apostate’
Ahmed Hosni Taha had apologized for comments against Islam al-Behairy, who has attacked religious books and Sunni scholars
By AFP
In this March 28, 2015 file photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, talks with Saudi King Salman after the king arrives in Sharm el-Sheikh, in the southern Sinai. (MENA via AP, File)
February 15, 2017, 6:51 pm
US looks to form Arab alliance against Iran — report
Trump administration said in talks to form NATO-like group of Sunni nations that would share intel with US, Israel
By ToI Staff
Journalist, scholar and author Geneive Abdo, director of the Iran Program at the Century Foundation in Washington, DC. (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung/ Flickr, via wikipedia, CC-BY-SA)
February 4, 2017, 1:15 pm
Is the solution to pan-Arabism simply to rethink our concept of borders?
Middle East scholar Geneive Abdo claims that sectarian strife in the world’s most complex region is due to theological rifts — and one fundamental Western misunderstanding
By JP O’ Malley
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) inspect an honor guard during their meeting in Astana on December 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/ILYAS OMAROV)
December 15, 2016, 7:22 pm
On PM’s visit to Asian Muslim states, a not-so-subtle message to the Arab world
Netanyahu sees his trip to Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan as a model for warming relations, but the two countries he toured are atypical in their approach to Islam
By Raphael Ahren
Hamas policemen march at the opening ceremony of a new police station in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, May 5, 2013 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
November 9, 2016, 10:21 pm
Palestinian supporter of Shiite Islamism killed in Gaza
Hamas-run police say they’re investigating killing of Mithqal al-Salmi, 35, near his home
By Agencies
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters hold a position on the top of Mount Zardak, about 25 kilometers east of Mosul, on October 17, 2016, as part of a broad operation to retake the city from the Islamic State group. (AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED)
October 18, 2016, 12:49 pm
Iraqi forces pause Mosul advance after a day of fighting
Complex battle for Islamic State-held city, the country’s second-largest, is expected to last weeks or months
By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
A street in Tehran (CC-BY SA Ehsan/Wikimedia Commons)
October 14, 2016, 3:23 pm
Iran arrests 11 over suspected IS suicide bombing plot
Authorities say they seized large quantities of explosives intended for use in attack
By AFP
Syrians queue up in the office of Judge Mahmoud Al-Maarawi (R), who heads the religious court that oversees personal status issues for Syria's Sunni Muslims, to get official documents related to their marital affairs, such as legal papers for divorce or for second marriages in Damascus, March 8, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA)
September 12, 2016, 8:40 am
Polygamy and divorce on the rise in war-torn Syria
Thousands of men dying in civil war or abandoning wives leads to remarriage for financial and social benefits
By Rim Haddad
Head of Iran's Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi speaks in a news conference in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
June 3, 2016, 9:31 am
Iran impedes citizens from hajj amid spat with Saudis
After hundreds of Iranians killed in 2015 Mecca stampede, Tehran demanded additional security for pilgrims
By Nasser Karimi
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