Shi'ite

Rouhani accuses Iranian hardliners of 'cheering on' other side in atom talks

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, growing frustrated with hardline resistance to a nuclear deal with...

Feb 02, 2015 08:02 AM EST

In Los Angeles, Muslim women find empowerment in female-only Friday prayers

After the traditional call to prayer, Edina Lekovic stood in front of some 150 women seated on the f...

Jan 31, 2015 08:58 AM EST

Shi'ite militias expand influence, redraw map in central Iraq

Behind black gates and high walls, Iraqi national security agents watch 200 women and children. Boys...

Dec 31, 2014 02:52 AM EST

'Lone wolf' Australian hostage-taker had violent, unsettled past

The self-styled sheikh behind a siege at a Sydney cafe had been charged as an accessory to murder an...

Dec 16, 2014 11:45 PM EST

Iraq's new premier battles to unite a fractured nation

Three months after he took office with a mission to unite his broken, warring country, Iraq's new pr...

Dec 15, 2014 09:44 AM EST

Possible sanctions breach as Iran Quds chief spotted in Iraq: U.N.

United Nations sanctions monitors have said photographs taken inside Iraq appear to confirm that the...

Dec 09, 2014 07:15 AM EST

Iraq's divisions will delay counter-offensive on Islamic State

U.S. air support and pledges of weapons and training for Iraq's army have raised expectations of a c...

Nov 30, 2014 08:44 AM EST

Bahrainis vote in second round of parliamentary election

Bahrainis voted in the second round of a parliamentary election on Saturday, a poll boycotted by the...

Nov 30, 2014 01:31 AM EST

Bahrain holds elections, Shi'ite opposition boycotts vote

Bahrainis voted on Saturday in the first parliamentary elections since 2011 when mostly Shi'ite prot...

Nov 24, 2014 02:00 AM EST

Iraqi forces say retake two towns from Islamic State

Iraqi forces said on Sunday they retook two towns north of Baghdad from Islamic State fighters, driv...

Nov 24, 2014 01:34 AM EST

France to send military gear to Lebanon from early 2015: source

France will start delivering military equipment to the Lebanese army in the first quarter of 2015 as...

Nov 09, 2014 10:37 PM EST

Yemen's Houthis reject new power-sharing government

Yemen's Houthi movement, which seized the capital Sanaa in September, on Saturday rejected a new pow...

Nov 08, 2014 07:25 PM EST

Gunmen shoot dead five people in Saudi Arabia: state news

Unidentified gunmen shot dead five people in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province late on Monday evening,...

Nov 03, 2014 08:58 PM EST

After victory in key Iraqi town, time for revenge

After helping government forces break Islamic State's grip over a strategic town just south of Baghd...

Oct 26, 2014 09:31 PM EDT

Saudi Arabia jails al Qaeda suspects over plot to hit U.S. forces

A Saudi court has sentenced 17 people, four of them women, to prison terms of up to 30 years in two ...

Oct 23, 2014 12:17 AM EDT

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