Shi'ite

Moroccan F-16 jet from Saudi-led coalition in Yemen goes missing

A Moroccan F-16 warplane that is part of the Saudi-led force carrying out air strikes in Yemen has g...

May 11, 2015 07:02 AM EDT

Yemeni Houthis call on U.N. to end Saudi strikes: statement

Yemeni Houthi rebels called on the United Nations on Saturday to seek an end to Saudi Arabian air st...

May 02, 2015 07:29 PM EDT

Besieged Yemeni city sees worst fighting yet: residents

Arab air strikes and artillery fire rocked the southern Yemeni city of Aden overnight as combatants ...

Apr 30, 2015 06:07 AM EDT

Saudi says arrests 93 Islamic State suspects, foils U.S. embassy attack

Saudi Arabia has arrested 93 people suspected of belonging to the Islamic State militant group, incl...

Apr 28, 2015 10:43 AM EDT

Iran's state TV social media accounts hacked

Iran's Arabic-language state TV network Al Alam said on Sunday its Twitter account had been hacked a...

Apr 12, 2015 05:17 AM EDT

Reuters Iraq bureau chief threatened, denounced over story

The Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters has left Iraq after he was threatened on Facebook and denounced...

Apr 12, 2015 12:51 AM EDT

Iran's leader says Saudi air strikes causing genocide

Iran's leader on Thursday condemned the military intervention by its main regional rival Saudi Arabi...

Apr 09, 2015 10:26 AM EDT

Exhumation of Iraq's Camp Speicher victim mass graves begins

Iraqi forensic teams began on Monday excavating 12 suspected mass grave sites thought to hold the co...

Apr 07, 2015 07:28 AM EDT

After Iraqi forces take Tikrit, a wave of looting and lynching

On April 1, the city of Tikrit was liberated from the extremist group Islamic State. The Shi'ite-led...

Apr 04, 2015 01:20 AM EDT

Fearing Islamic State, some Afghan Shi'ites seek help from old enemies

Even by Afghanistan's standards of often-shifting alliances, a recent meeting between ethnic Hazara ...

Mar 22, 2015 05:39 AM EDT

Saudi king aims for new Sunni bloc vs Iran and Islamic State

Saudi Arabia is pushing for Sunni Muslim Middle East countries to set aside differences over politic...

Mar 06, 2015 08:09 AM EST

Kerry briefs Iran's Gulf rivals on nuclear talks

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Gulf Arab foreign ministers in Riyadh on Thursday to brief th...

Mar 05, 2015 09:51 AM EST

Iraqi forces try to seal off Islamic State around Tikrit

Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and Shi'ite militiamen sought to seal off Islamic State fighters in Tikr...

Mar 03, 2015 08:49 AM EST

Clashes between Shi'ite Houthis and Sunnis in Yemen leave 26 dead

Tens of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in several cities on Saturday against the rule of the Shi'...

Feb 14, 2015 08:52 PM EST

Bahrain revokes nationality of 72 on security grounds

The Bahraini government has revoked the nationality of 72 citizens for damaging national security, t...

Feb 02, 2015 08:10 AM EST

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