The Sunni-Shia Conflict in Iraq
Tuesday's deadly coordinated bomb attacks against soft targets in Iraq bear the mark of a simmering Sunni insurgency. But the Sunni-Shia conflict has very little to do with personal religious grudges.
Tuesday's deadly coordinated bomb attacks against soft targets in Iraq bear the mark of a simmering Sunni insurgency. But the Sunni-Shia conflict has very little to do with personal religious grudges.
Betwa Sharma | Posted 11.23.2009 | World
Since Shiites have no restriction on single women going for the Hajj, A Hajj first timer, Saju, is less than pleased to know that Saudi Arabia requires all women pilgrims below the age of 45 to be accompanied by a male relative.
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.
AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...
AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 09.13.2009 | World
SAN'A, Yemen — Yemeni warplanes bombed a northern province bordering Saudi Arabia for a second straight day Thursday as a protracted conflict wi...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
The Iraqi government, in an attempt to mend the ethnic, sectarian divide between Shia and Sunni Muslims that has long plagued that country, is offerin...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 08.05.2009 | Media
"Unfortunately, I wasn't scared enough, and I wasn't cautious," Anderson admitted. "I got caught because I refused to take the precautions that I probably should have."
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, which Bush et al either supported or outright committed, actually strengthened the Ahmadinejad government.
Ray Hanania | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Obama's speech to the Arab and Muslim World is creating a new context in which the people of the Middle East can more clearly see justice without the need for more violence.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
America pulling combat forces out of Iraqi cities is going to have multiple effects within the country. At this point, nobody can accurately predict what those effects are going to be with 100 percent reliability.
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — Shiite clerics warned the government Friday not to sign a security pact that would keep U.S. troops in Iraq until 2012, as the prime m...
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
This election will show the public's choice, its mandate for the type of leader it wants to deal with complex issues, like why people use terrorism as a tactic to dialogue with those in power.
Omid Memarian | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
Why after the Israel-Lebanon 34-day war two years ago, and particularly after the Doha accord in May, which restored Hezbollah to the Lebanese governm...
Shoaib Harris | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
Unlike McCain, who keeps recycling President Bush's bravado of catching "Bin Laden dead or alive," Obama, to his credit, has articulated his Afghanistan strategy more clearly.
AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home
BAGHDAD — The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite militiaman on Wednesday for a truck bombing that killed 63 people in a Shiite area of Baghd...
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
BAGHDAD — A car bomb ripped through a busy commercial street in a Shiite area of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 51 people and wounding sco...
Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see t...
Associated Press | Bradley Brooks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Thousands of followers of a radical cleric took to Baghdad's streets after Friday prayers to protest a triple car bombing in one of their southern str...
Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 12.08.2009 | World