Shia militias in Iraq have kidnapped and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months, a report by campaign group Amnesty International has said. The killings were in apparent revenge for ...

When Halabja’s provincial status was proposed, Shia and Sunni lawmakers sought the same for Tal Afar and Fallujah. Shwan Kalari, an Iraqi MP, rejected the comparison, citing Halabja’s unique suffering ...

What is important for a discussion of the Shia-Sunni divide is that Muhammad used ... since his birth in the ninth century in what is Iraq today. This last Imam will appear before the return ...

Some patterns are evident—a resurgent Iran, heightened Shiite-Sunni ethno-religious ... Vali Nasr writes in his new book, The Shia Revival, that war in Iraq will not make the Middle East more ...

Now you have the complete and accurate Doha Shia Ramadan Calendar and the Timetable for the year 2025. Further, you can access the Jafri Fiqh Sehri and Iftar for today in Doha, Mar 30, 2025. What is ...

By looking at the shift in the balance of power, the author explains the potential geopolitical risk if Iraq walks away from ...

Some minorities may see benefits in allying with Israel today. Syria is now ruled by a former al-Qaeda leader. A recent ...

He seemed not to have given much attention to ethnicity which would – and in Pakistan's case did – stand in the way of nation building. He himself belonged to a small ethnic group called the Khojas ...

It was only a matter of time until the Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gunmen of Syria’s post-Assad interim government took into ...

Eid al-Fitr, however, will be celebrated Monday in Oman, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Algeria and Tunisia as the new moon could not be sighted. Iraq’s Sunni and Shia Muslims will also mark the festival on ...

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