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Saudi Shias fear new unrest after spy arrests
Reuters 10 Apr 2013
QATIF, Saudi Arabia  — Al-Awamiyah is a small village of shabby houses, narrow streets and dilapidated palm...
Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in the Al-Mashtal district in Baghdad
Bombs kill 50 on Iraq invasion anniversary
Reuters 19 Mar 2013
      A dozen car bombs and suicide blasts tore into Shia districts in Baghdad and south of the Iraqi...
A group of Shiites in Iraq celebrated in their own way Ashora December 27, 2009
Two bombs kill 28 people in Iraq Shia cities
Reuters 29 Nov 2012
Bombs in two majority Shia Muslim cities in southern Iraq killed 28 people on Thursday, police and hospital sources...
Bahrain jails 19 Shia demonstrators for attempted murder
AFP 11 Nov 2012
A Bahraini court on Sunday sentenced 19 Shia to five years each in jail for the attempted murder of policemen during...
A Sunni gunman fires his weapon during a clashes, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Sunday, 13 May 2012. Gunfire broke out in the city Saturday and continued through the night primarily between a neighborhood populated by Sunni Muslims who hate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and another area with many Assad backers from his Alawite sect. Lebanon's national news agency NNA said one soldier was shot dead by a sniper in the city early Sunday. Another man was found dead on the side of a road while a third died after a shell landed in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Four dead in Lebanon clashes that echo Syria conflict
Reuters 21 Aug 2012
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Four people were killed and more than 60 wounded in clashes between Sunni Muslims...
Iraqi Sunni leader wounded at start of Eid
AFP 19 Aug 2012
  A Sunni religious leader who called on Iraqis to fight US troops but has more recently advocated national...
آلاف الأفراد يحتشدون أمام مسجد السيدة زينب ، 29 يوليو 2008 ، احتفالا بمولدها ، حيث يقام سنويا احتفالات .
Egypt’s Shia pay the price of regional struggle
Sarah Carr
Mohamad Adam
15 Aug 2012
In the working-class neighborhood of Bulaq al-Dakror, a group of men gathered 28 July to prevent what they called a...
Shia faith
Locals in Cairo neighborhood accuse four people of proselytizing Shia
Al-Masry Al-Youm 28 Jul 2012
Bulaq al-Dakrour prosecution has started investigating about 40 claims filed against four people for proselytizing the...
A portrait of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is installed in front of Lebanese (C) and Iranian flags on a flyover leading to Beirut International Airport.
Endowments Ministry warns against invites to Iran
MENA 21 Jun 2012
The Endowments Ministry on Thursday warned imams and preachers against accepting invitations to Iran, saying such...
In this photo taken on Saturday, 2 June 2012, people shop at a department store in Baghdad's Azamiya neighborhood, Iraq. For residents of Azamiya, once one of Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods, the opening of a department store selling party dresses, imported men's suits and designer label perfumes is a hopeful sign that the worst may finally be behind them. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Signs of hope in a former Baghdad killing field
AP 07 Jun 2012
BAGHDAD — For residents of Azamiya, once one of Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods, the opening of a...