Saudi authorities detain wanted Shiite
25 days ago
He said one of them is Abdullah bin Salman al-Sraih, one of 23 Shiites wanted for allegedly instigating violent protests demanding the release of imprisoned relatives.
10 years after Iraq invasion, Sunnis who backed Saddam chafe under Shiite rule
71 days ago
The Sunnis, who make up some 30 percent of Iraq's 31.1 million population, resent that Maliki, a Shiite, has taken direct or indirect charge of all the security portfolios.
Shiite leader: Sectarian attacks are 'genocide'
77 days ago
Still, Rahmani said the Afghan Taliban have not promoted sectarian violence, which might explain why there have been no other anti-Shiite attacks, Rahmani said Thursday in an interview.
Protests over Pakistan bombing turn deadly
82 days ago
Pakistan's intelligence agencies helped nurture Sunni militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the 1980s and 1990s to counter a perceived threat from neighboring Iran, which is mostly Shiite.
37 killed as Pakistani mosque is car-bombed
83 days ago
Pakistan's intelligence agencies helped nurture Sunni militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the 1980s and 1990s to counter a perceived threat from neighboring Iran, which is mostly Shiite.
Report: Religious violence rising in Indonesia
86 days ago
The report released Thursday cited a steady increase in brutal attacks over the past few years due to what it said was the government's failure to confront thuggish harassment against Christians,...
More than 200 kidnapped Syrian villagers released
92 days ago
Residents of the Shiite villages could not be reached for comment, though a Facebook page for the larger of the villages, Fua, said in a post Thursday that the captives had returned.
Shiites lash out after Pakistan bombing kills 81
97 days ago
Saturday's blast at a produce market in Quetta underlined the precarious situation for Shiites living in a majority Sunni country where many extremist groups don't consider them real Muslims.
Sectarian kidnappings spread strife in Northern Syria
98 days ago
But there was agreement that the kidnappings have spiked since Thursday, when unknown gunmen stopped a bus carrying Shiite civilians and kidnapped all its passengers.
Iraq Sunnis decry Shiite-led government's policies
127 days ago
Thousands of Sunnis are rallying in western and central Iraq against the Shiite-led government's policies they see as sidelining their minority group.
