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17 Jul 2015, 10:21 am by Quinta Jurecic , Staley Smith
The Telegraph suggests that the meeting may have been spearheaded by Saudi Arabia’s efforts to marshal Sunni cooperation against an Iran no longer weakened by sanctions. [read post]
24 Jul 2015, 1:22 pm by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
Representatives of the Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh met yesterday with diplomats from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates, though it is unclear what significance the meetings will have. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 11:16 am by Cody M. Poplin
" The video is clearly meant to mirror another snuff film released just days ago by the Shiite militias, showing a well-known commander, Abu Azrael (also called the “Angel of Death”), killing a Sunni man in similar fashion. [read post]
16 Jul 2017, 7:00 am by Ariane Tabatabai, Annie Tracy Samuel
To Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who presided over a Sunni-dominated, secular government ruling a Shi’i majority, Iran’s new Islamic Republic presented a threat to his power. [read post]
8 Jul 2016, 12:40 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
The attack occurred as Shiites celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr visited the mausoleum of Sayid Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi, a revered figure in Shia theology. [read post]
20 Jun 2015, 9:30 am by Staley Smith
Representatives from Hadi’s government, the Houthi fighters, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's General Peoples' Congress and other opposition groups are in Geneva this week to attend U.N. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 4:00 am by Daniel Byman
Riyadh supported an array of tribal and military forces that worked with Islah, Yemen’s most important Sunni Islamist party and an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 1:07 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Members of two Shia militias, the Badr Brigades and the League of Righteous, sought revenge for the Islamic State’s assaults in Baghdad in January by attacking Sunnis as well as their homes and mosques. [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 9:45 am by J. Dana Stuster
Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia began publicly courting Sheikh Abdullah Bin Ali Al-Thani, who belongs to the branch of the Qatari royal family tree that was ousted in 1972 by the current line of emirs. [read post]
1 Aug 2017, 8:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
But, while Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told hajj organizers this year that they will never forget the “catastrophic events” of 2015, Iranians will be back in force this year. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 6:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
Since the Gulf intervention in Yemen’s civil war in 2015, the United States has been partnering with Emirati troops to target AQAP, but it has also been helping the Gulf state fight the other war in Yemen: the civil war against Houthi rebels and loyalists to Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country’s former president ousted in the Arab Spring, who together seized the capital in 2014. [read post]
25 Sep 2018, 9:42 am by J. Dana Stuster
Ahvaz is situated in Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran; the area has a large Sunni population and was hit particularly hard by the country’s war with Iraq in the 1980s, which Saturday’s parade commemorated. [read post]
23 Jan 2015, 10:33 am by Sebastian Brady
General Lloyd Austin, the head of US Central Command, described the emerging contours of the Mosul operation, which will combine US-trained Sunni forces with Kurdish peshmerga. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 12:09 pm by Cody Poplin
At the moment, it remains unclear how the most recent Sunni-Shia flare up will affect progress with Iran on a nuclear deal. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 11:21 am by Cody Poplin
Separately, security officials claimed to have also unearthed a plot to assassinate Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 7:00 am by Daniel Byman
Although the Zaydis are often seen as doctrinally closer to Sunni Islam than the Twelver Shi`ism of Iran, in today’s environment no one seems to care. [read post]
21 May 2015, 5:46 pm by Old Fox
.🔎🔎The documents indicate that Iran was a major combatant in the Iraq war, as its elite Quds Force trained Iraqi Shiite insurgents and imported deadly weapons like the shape-charged Explosively Formed Projectile bombs into Iraq for use against civilians, Sunni militants and U.S. troops.🔎A report from 2006 claims“neuroparalytic” chemical weapons from Iran were smuggled into Iraq. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 11:06 am by Benjamin Bissell
In Ottawa yesterday, a gunman “shot and killed a soldier,” Cpl. [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 12:03 pm by Cody Poplin
The New York Times writes that ISIS militants are pummeling Sunni Kurds in northern Syria. [read post]
6 May 2015, 11:27 am by Sebastian Brady
In a televised address yesterday, the Shiite militia’s leader said his group would target units of the Sunni Nusra Front based in the Qalamoun mountains, though he specified no time frame for the attacks. [read post]