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The Sunni-Shia Conflict in Iraq

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 12.08.2009 | World

Read More: Iraqi Civil War, US Troops, Sectarian Divisions, US Troops in Iraq, Iran, Militias, Saudi Arabia, Sunni Shia, Iraq Sectarian Violence, Sectarian-Fighting, Moqtada Al Sadr, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Sectarian Cleansing, Iraqi Withdrawal, Sunni Militants, Iraq-Shiites, Sunni-Militias, Iraqi Sunni Shia, Iraqi Security Forces, Sunni Jihadists, Sunni-Shia, Ehtno-Sectarian-Violence, Iraq War, Jihadist, Sunni Awakening, Moqtada Al-Sadr, Shiite, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Shiite Militias, Sectarian Violence, Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, World News
Nathan Gonzalez

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.

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Forbidden Rituals At The Hajj

Betwa Sharma | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Jannatul Baqee, Pakistan, Medina, Hussein, Iraq, Hajj, Karbala, Mosque, Shiite, Koran, Iran, Polytheism, Prophet Mohammed, Mecca, Saudia Arabia, Sunni, Turbah, Bid’ah, Kabaa, World News
Betwa Sharma

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.

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Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Barak, Emir of Qatar, Islamists, Extremism, Ammar Mousawi, Peace Process, Bernard Kouchner, Palestine, Lebanon, Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, Shiite, Lieberman, US State Department, Middle East, Usama Hamdan, Cairo, Oprah, Taliban, Khaled Meshaal, Israel, US President, Resistance, Abu Mazen, Hassan Nasrallah, Us, Terrorism, Sunni, World News
Sharmine Narwani

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.

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Camp Bucca: Military Closes Largest Detention Camp In Iraq

AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq, Shiite, Abu Ghraib, Camp Cropper, Insurgency, Ronald Bucca, Soldiers, Kuwait, Enemy Combatants, Fallujah, Camp Taji, Prison, Detention Center, Camp Bucca, Baghdad, Jail, Sunni, World News

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...

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Yemen Violence Kills "Scores" As Shiite Rebellion Continues

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 09.13.2009 | World

Read More: Yemen Violence, Yemen Strike, Shiite Minority, Yemen Clashes, Yemen, War Planes Strike, Yemen Rebellion, Shiite, Yemeni War Planes, Scores Killed Yemen, Yemen Shiite Rebellion, World News

SAN'A, Yemen — Yemeni warplanes bombed a northern province bordering Saudi Arabia for a second straight day Thursday as a protracted conflict wi...

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Iraq Sunni-Shia Marriage Payment Program Seeks To Mend Sectarian Divide

Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Religion, Iraqi Sunni Shia, Foreign Affairs, Sunni, Shiite, Shia, Iraq, Sunni Shia, Iraqi Marriage Program, Sunnis, Advocacy, Shiites, World News

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...

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Ex-AP Hostage Terry Anderson Back in Beirut to Teach U.S. J-Students How to Report Accurately on Middle East

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 08.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Hostages, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Shiite, Beirut, Ohio University, Issam Fares, Northern Ireland, Rev. Ian Paisley, Islamic Jihad, Arabs, U.S. Media, The Associated Press, Committee to Protect Journalists, Lebanese, Islam, Presbyterians, Press Freedom, Imad Mughnieh, Time Magazine, Terrorism, President Barack Obama, Twitter, United States, Terry Anderson, Den of Lions, Hamra District, Facebook, New York, Palestinians, Muslims, University of Kentucky, Afghanistan, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Hassan Nasrallah, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Iowa State University, Beirut-Lebanon, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

"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."

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Obama is Doing Right by the Iranian People, So Far

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Lebanon, Hugo Chavez, Britain, Afghanistan, Iranian, President Obama, Sunni, Violence, Paramilitary, Hezbollah, Iran, Taliban, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Basij, George W. Bush, Arab, Revolution, United States, Protest, Tiananmen Square, Shiite, Occupied Territories, Mass Movement, Iraq, John McCain, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, which Bush et al either supported or outright committed, actually strengthened the Ahmadinejad government.

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Lebanon's Election is Obama's First Post-Muslim/Arab World Speech Victory

Ray Hanania | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Christians, Islam, Terrorism, President Barack Obama, Michel Aoun, Shi'ite, Iraq, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Rafiq Hariri, Saad Hariri, Muslims, Middle East, Lebanese Elections, Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, Speech to Muslim World, Sunni, Maronites, Obama Mideast Trip, World News
Ray Hanania

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.

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First Milestone Approaches In Iraq Withdrawal Timetable

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Sectarian Violence, President Obama, Troops, Timetable, Sectarian, Obama, US Troops, Awakening, Shiite, Withdrawal, Bush, Military, Surge, Sofa, Kurds, Oil Revenues, Security, June 30, Article 24, Acceptible Level of Violence, War, Timeline, Status of Forces Agreement, American Troops, Barack Obama, Iraq War, Awakening Councils, Deadline, Combat Troops, Chris Weigant, Oil, Iraq, Maliki, Mosul, Timetable for Withdrawal, Cities, Sunni, World News
Chris Weigant

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.

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US Security Pact Should Be Rejected, Shiite Clerics Say

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: War Wire, Iraq, Iraq War, War in Iraq, Shiites, Shiite, Us Security Pact, Nouri Al Maliki, Baghdad, Politics News

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...

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We are like a city on a hill

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Diyala, Bombings, Fairy Tale, Obama, Puritan, Colonists, Province, Shiite, America, Pakistani Capital, Old Lord, Northern Sri Lanka, Border Region, John Winthrop, Terrorism, Mother Jones, Sevenfold, Algerian Capital, Prince, Army General, Islamabad, City Upon a Hill, Iraq War, Baghdad, Algeria, Mosques, Sunni, Female Suicide Bomber, Harper's Magazine, Pakistan, Iraqi, Jodhpur, Iraqi Officials, John McCain, Iraq Violence, India, Jamal Tawfiq, Opposition Leader, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

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.

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My Interview With Deborah Campbell: How Hezbollah's Triumph is Blowback for U.S. Policy

Omid Memarian | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Syria, The Middle East, John McCain, Terrorism, Deborah Campbell, Terrorist Organization, Olmert, Prisoner Exchange, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Shiite, Barack Obama, u.s. Foreign Policy, The United States, Iran, 2006 War, Saudi Arabia, Doha Agreement, Saudi Money, Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, Sunni, Politics News
Omid Memarian

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...

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McCain's Afghanistan: Macabre Visions Through The Eyes of an Ex-President

Shoaib Harris | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ahmed Rashid, War on Terror, Jena Bush, Taliban, Shiite, Republican Presidential Candidate, Kabul, John McCain, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Soviet Occupation, Afghanistan, Bamiyan, Hazara, Khad, Scott Mcclellan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Alqaeda, US Soldiers, Politics News
Shoaib Harris

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.

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US: Shiite 'Special Group' Responsible For Deadly Baghdad Car Bomb

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Warwaire, Iraq, Iraq Bombing, Baghdad, Shiite, Shiite Special Group, Iraq War, Car Bomb, Truck Bomb, Home News

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...

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Baghdad Car Bomb Kills Over 50, Wounds 75

AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, War on Terror, Terrorism, Car Bombing, Terrorist, Car Bomb, Baghdad Market Bombs, Insurgency, Baghdad Car Bomb, Iraq Car Bomb, Baghdad, Shiite, Security, Iraq, Guerilla Warfare, Politics News

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...

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All Iraqi Groups Blame US Invasion For Discord, Study Shows

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bush Administration, Warwire, Anbar Province, Sunni Insurgency, George W. Bush, AQI, Al-Qaida, Iraq Civil War, Sunni, Shiite, Al-Qaida in Iraq, Iraq, War in Iraq, Iraq Insurgency, Politics News

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...

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Sadr Followers Protest Iraq Bombings

Associated Press | Bradley Brooks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Warwire, Moqtada Al-Sadr, Car Bombs in Iraq, Shiite, Iraq Bombings, Iraq, War in Iraq, Muqtada Al Sadr, Shiite Militants, Politics News

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...

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