TEHRAN, Dec. 06 (MNA) In a meeting with the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in British House of Commons, Irans Deputy Foreign Minister in Asia and Pacific Affairs said that the discord between Sunnis and Shias was not the reason for the regional issues. Irans Deputy Foreign Minister in Asia and Pacific Affairs Ebrahim Rahimpour said that ...

What is the current state of Sunni-Shiite tension in the Gulf? How has it changed over the last 15 years? Sectarian tensions have become a major part of political life in the Gulf Arab states, particularly in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. Shiites in each state suffer varying degrees of religious discrimination and political marginalization. Tensions ...

Iran has turned the corner on Syria, its longstanding ally in the Arab world.It still wants close ties to a country that is the strategic center of the Arab world. But after three years of war, Tehranis also increasingly concerned that Syria may not hold together if President Bashar Assad stays in power because of bitter passions that now divide political ...

BEIRUT (AP) -- Al-Qaidais positioning itself as a vanguard defending the Sunni community against what it sees as persecution by Shiite-dominated governments across Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. As a result, a Syrian rebellion whose aim was the removal of President Bashar Assad is evolving into something both bigger and more ambiguous: a fight increasingly ...

An Iraqi group says it will launch attacks on Saudi targets if the kingdom continues to provoke sectarian violence in the region. The group, which calls itself the Mukhtar Army, also claimed responsibility for a Wednesday mortar attack, which targeted an uninhabited area of Saudi Arabia near the Iraqi border. It says the attack was carried out ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- An attack on a Shiite family living near Baghdad has left at least 16 people dead, Iraqi officials said. They were killed after militants bombed two adjacent houses belonging to brothers from a Shiite family in Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) South of the Iraqi capital, BBC reported. At least five women and six children are believed ...

Beirut, Aug 20, IRNA Senior Lebanese Shia Muslim scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Afif Nablusi on Tuesday called on Iran to help thwart plots hatched by the US and the Zionist regime to divide the Muslim nations in the region. Addressing a ceremony in southern Lebanese city of Saida, Nablusi urged regional governments to safeguard national solidarity, stressing ...

(AhlulBaytNewsAgency) -The Taliban bombers used motorcycles to target the Shia Muslims in crowded marketplaces in Parachina just minutes before the break of fasting in the Holy Month of Ramadan on Friday. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility shortly after the massacre of the Shia Muslims. Talking to reporters from an undisclosed ...

Tehran has strongly condemned the recent deadly bomb attacks which targeted Shia Muslims in Pakistans northwestern tribal region of Kurram. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbaas Araqchi on Saturday denounced the incident as a heinous terrorist attack, saying, Undoubtedly, the move was aimed at fulfilling the evil objectives of the enemies ...

text message contest organized by the Irancell telecommunication services company causes a storm among Irans Sunnis   A prize contest held by the Irancell mobile phone carrier has drawn anger from Irans Sunni minority and prompted calls for a boycott of the company in recent days. The outcry began when one of the questions in Irancells ...

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AP) Kuwaiti voters braved searing heat in the middle of the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast to cast ballots Saturday in parliamentary elections that leaders in the oil-rich Gulf nation hope can restore some stability after years of escalating confrontations between its Western-backed rulers and an Islamist-led opposition. The outcome ...

A wave of attacks in Iraq has killed at least 28 people, raising the July death toll to 638, security and medical officials say. On Tuesday night, bombs went off when hundreds of people gathered forprayers at four Sunni mosques, leaving 12 worshippers dead and dozens more injured, AFP reported. Two mosques were attacked in the northern city of ...

[caption id="attachment_31105" align="alignright" width="210"] A cleric reads a book in the library of a religious research center associated with the seminary in Qom, 120 km (75 miles) south of Tehran Feb. 2, 2009.[/caption] Shiite seminaries, in particular the original centers in Najaf and Qom, play a dual role within the arena of the Sunni-Shiite ...

[caption id="attachment_27519" align="alignright" width="300"] A Muslim man prays inside a new mosque in Rijeka, May 4, 2013. This is the first mosque built in the Croatian Adriatic city since the withdrawal of the Ottoman Empire, according to local Muslims.[/caption] Generations of Arabs were raised on hatred of Turkey, thanks to the legacy of the ...

In Iraqs Anbar province, where there is mutiny against Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet, one wonders about the significance of launching a huge war that could have been easily politically finalized by the Iraqi government. There is no oil in Anbar or real strongholds, and it is merely a futile land whose people are angry of the continuous persecution against ...