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21 Dec 2016, 11:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
The city had been a locus for the Islamic State’s predecessor during the U.S. occupation, and with its fall, Iraqi forces were once again in control of all major cities in the heavily-Sunni Anbar province. [read post]
5 Nov 2016, 8:10 am by Kenneth M. Pollack
For their part, the Turkmen of Tal Afar are divided between Sunnis who furnished many recruits and top leaders for Da’esh but are also “protected” by Turkey, and Shiites who were badly oppressed by the Sunnis and Da’esh. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 7:00 am by J. Dana Stuster
Turkish officials say they are deploying half of the 3,000 local, predominantly Sunni fighters they’ve trained at an airbase in Bashiqa, Iraq, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday that Turkey “will be at the table” for talks on Mosul after the Islamic State is forced from the city. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 1:15 pm by Quinta Jurecic
We just lost a particular well-known one with Muhammad Ali. [read post]
27 Sep 2016, 9:50 am by J. Dana Stuster
-backed Kurdish rebels and Turkish-backed Sunni Arab rebels that occurred in the opening stages of the Turkish intervention in Syria. [read post]
19 Sep 2016, 9:11 am by Daniel Byman
But as the jihadists have grown more vicious and dominant, the regime has tried to rebrand itself as the champion of those fearing repression if the country’s Sunni majority comes to power by force. [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 8:22 am by Laura Dean
Meanwhile Ali’s medical condition is getting worse all the time. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 12:31 pm by Bruce Riedel
They marched on the southern port of Aden, Sunni territory. [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]
27 Jun 2016, 1:33 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
” Mark Mazzetti and Ali Younes write in the New York Times that Jordanian intelligence officers systematically sold CIA weapons earmarked for Syrian rebels on the black market. [read post]
14 Jun 2016, 12:02 pm by Laura Dean
Ali’s health was deteriorating rapidly. [read post]
25 May 2016, 12:41 pm by Elina Saxena
” An assault led by the SDF would come with trade offs though, as many Sunni Arabs in the region are wary of "liberation" by Kurdish forces, fearing the potential for sectarian reprisals and violence. [read post]
24 May 2016, 2:11 pm by Caitlin Gilligan, Alex R. McQuade
But Ali Hassan, a senior official in the Badr Brigade told reporters that his group would “not be dragged into that fighting, our only goal now is to fight Daesh. [read post]
29 Apr 2016, 2:09 pm by Alex R. McQuade
” Mohammed Ali Ahmed, Zakaria Boufassil, and Soumaya Boufassil all face charges of terrorism financing. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 3:18 am
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan declared that no future protests would be allowed in the capital’s “red zone. [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 12:55 pm
"The three are Dawoud al-Marhoon, arrested in 2012; Abdullah Hassan al-Zaher, who was 15 when he was arrested in 2011; and Ali al-Nimr, aged 17 when he was detained in 2012. [read post]
14 Feb 2016, 7:39 am by Nadwa Dawsari
The expansion of the Houthis, a Zaydi-Shi’a rebel group, and forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh into historically-marginalized, predominantly Sunni-Shafi areas created conditions ripe for extremist recruitment. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 7:41 am
Boa stressed that Islam is not monolithic, and that there is much variation (and strife) between its differing factions (which go way beyond just Sunnis vs. [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]