Stories 1 - 10 for Shi'a Islam

A ninth-century spiral minaret attests to Samarra's brief reign as capital of the Islamic world, as well as to its economic potential as a tourist center. ...

A student asks US President Barack Obama (L) a question during a town hall meeting at the Museum of Science and Technology in Shanghai, on Nov. ...

Suri described the 'Alawis as heretics, fanatical Shi'a descended from Jews and Zoroastrians.[33] About Hama, he related not only how the "lives of more ...

... “There is kind of what we call “coup d'état syndrome” – you can see it clearly in the statements of so many Shi'a Islamic leaders who fear that the ...

The Shi'a still feel that other Iraqis don't understand the injustice they faced during Saddam Hussein's time. The Kurds are secluded in their own enclave. ...

... war has subsided between once-dominant Sunnis and the country's majority Shi'a, propelled into power after the fall of Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein. ...

... not only the Shi'a but all of Islam, because it permits the killing of non-Wahhabi Muslims and forces its belief on the other Islamic streams. ...

... for a "new world order" aimed at spreading the Shi'a and the Iranian revolution in Latin America and West Africa, and that he expects Brazil, Venezuela, ...

The council is composed of President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, and Vice Presidents Hashimi and Adil Abd al-Mahdi, a Shi'a. Only one of the three needs to veto ...