And even among Iraq’s Shia, the pro-Tehran position is heavily ... Kadhimi had restored Iraqi ties with Sunni powers such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan, even while keeping excellent ...

Iran’s Shia clergy has been supporting the Shia Muslims of Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. This spreading influence has caused concern to the Sunni rulers of Arab countries with Shia minorities ...

Israel’s expansionist ambitions continue to drive the erasure of Palestine, raising the critical question: Can the US and ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

IMPACT-SE, an organization that monitors how various countries educate for tolerance, conducted a new study titled "Israel and Jews in Azerbaijani Education", which examines Azerbaijani textbooks' app ...

The deal to be implemented by the end of the year would bring all border crossings with Iraq and Turkey in the ... an offshoot of Shia Islam whose adherents live mainly in Syria’s western ...

Israel has also sought to foster closer ties with the Kurds, whose homeland spans parts of Iraq, Iran ... and we want to be citizens, not Sunni or Shia or Alawi. We want to be citizens in a ...

Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on Iran to extradite members of the controversial "Qurban" (Sacrifice) sect who fled Iraq amid a government crackdown ... Such beliefs contradict both Shia ...

Alawite community is a Shia sect of Islam ... They are centred in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They speak several dialects of Kurdish, a language that is not linked to Turkish or Arabic. The ...