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14 Jul 2016, 12:31 pm
They marched on the southern port of Aden, Sunni territory. [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]
6 Jan 2017, 10:30 am
Oman has long had a policy of trying to deescalate tensions in the Gulf between Iran and the Sunni gulf monarchies. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 1:17 pm
Following the execution, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared that “God’s hand of retaliation will grip the neck of Saudi politicians. [read post]
17 Jan 2022, 1:28 pm
At the time, Iraq was suffering a sectarian war between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. [read post]
3 Jan 2018, 5:00 am
The Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, exercises a veto over Iranian decision-making, heads the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the judicial system, and state television, among other powers. [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]
2 May 2018, 6:54 am
At core of ISIS criticism of Shia Islam is the status Shias give to the fourth successor to the Prophet Mohammed, Ali and his descendants, specifically the belief that one of Ali’s bloodline will return as a savior figure during the apocalypse. [read post]
7 Apr 2019, 7:00 am
This ideology is inspired by Zaydism, a branch of Shi’ism with similar religious practices to the Sunni Shafi’i sect in Yemen. [read post]
24 Jan 2016, 7:06 am
Despite high-level lobbying by Iran’s leadership and Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Iraq, Saudi authorities chose to execute al-Nimr. [read post]
4 Feb 2020, 5:00 am
This includes the so-called shrine Shia militia groups pledging allegiance to Iraqi Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as well Sunni and ethnic militia groups. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 6:46 am
Many would also say that only Sunni Muslims count: Shiite Muslims are the majority in Iraq, Bahrain and Iran, but under jihadists’ strict interpretation of monotheism, Shiites are not true Muslims because their veneration of Ali, the fourth caliph and the prophet’s cousin and son-in-law, gives him semi-divine status. [read post]
27 Sep 2016, 9:50 am
-backed Kurdish rebels and Turkish-backed Sunni Arab rebels that occurred in the opening stages of the Turkish intervention in Syria. [read post]
26 Sep 2021, 7:01 am
Editor’s Note: The rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) had many sources, ranging from the Iraqi government’s increased discrimination against Sunnis to the collapse of Syria into civil war. [read post]
24 May 2016, 2:11 pm
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]
5 Nov 2016, 8:10 am
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]
11 Jun 2018, 6:00 am
The Sunni jihadist group, which claimed to be building a “caliphate” based on the earliest model of Islamic governance, overran Mosul in just five days with little resistance from the Iraqi Army. [read post]
9 Oct 2018, 8:06 am
Abdul Mahdi, though, garnered endorsements from Kurdish and Sunni politicians and Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the highest Shia authority in Iraq, and Amiri and Maliki backed down when it became apparent that they did not have the votes to form their own coalition. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 4:00 am
The precipitating event for this bizarre political pantomime was a meeting between Hariri and Ali Akbar Velayati, a political adviser to Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei. [read post]
18 Nov 2017, 7:46 am
(Elena Toledo, US on Alert as Russia Suggests Reopening Military Bases in Cuba, PanAm Post 13 Nov. 2017).This return to old conditions has a modern twist as well--the connection between Cuba and Iran in a world in which the U.S. is more aggressively tilting toward Sunni Islam as Russia (along with Cuba) bets on Shia Islam. [read post]
