Conflicts / Tags / Shia

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:26am neoform

BBC News -- Gunmen from the Shia militant group Hezbollah have seized most of western Beirut, driving out supporters of the Western-backed government. The gunmen, who also back Hezbollah's Shia opposition allies, have forced the closure of pro-government media... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- The Shia governor of Iraq's southern Muthana province has been killed by a roadside bomb, officials have said. The governor, Mohammed Ali al-Hasani, was killed when the bomb exploded next to his convoy as it drove through the provincial capital, Samawa.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 9:23pm neoform

BBC News -- Officials close to radical Iraqi Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, have said he will withdraw his Cabinet ministers from the government coalition on Monday. Moqtada Sadr's political bloc has six ministers in Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's government. The la.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 9, 2007 @ 1:25pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of two Shia holy cities in Iraq today and protested against "US occupiers". The rally was called by Mr Sadr, who said in a statement yesterday that his m.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Feb 14, 2007 @ 9:45am mrmdc

BBC News -- The most senior US military officer has said there is no proof the Iranian government has directly armed Shia groups fighting in Iraq. Gen Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, appeared to contradict claims made by US officers in Iraq... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Dec 4, 2006 @ 8:17am neoform

Telegraph -- The gulf's two military powers, Sunni-Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, are lining up behind their warring religious brethren in Iraq in a potentially explosive showdown, as expectations grow in both countries that America is preparing a pull-out of its.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Nov 9, 2007 @ 4:48pm neoform

BBC News -- The US military in Iraq has released nine of the 20 Iranian citizens it has detained there, including two held on suspicion of helping Shia militants. The release followed a review of their cases which concluded that the men no longer posed a security.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- A huge security operation is under way in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, ahead of a pilgrimage that is expected to draw more than a million Shia faithful. Nearly 2,000 police and security agents are guarding the Kadhimiya mosque in northern Baghdad, and all.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

BBC News -- US troops in Iraq say they have killed an al-Qaeda leader who masterminded the attacks on a Shia shrine that led to a major escalation in sectarian violence. Officials say Haitham al-Badri was behind the 2006 and 2007 attacks on the al-Askari shrine in.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 4:28pm neoform

BBC News -- At least 78 people have been killed and another 218 injured in a truck bomb attack near a Shia mosque in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. The massive explosion in the busy Sinak commercial district destroyed part of the al-Khilani mosque and s.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- The two minarets of the al-Askari shrine in Iraq, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, have been destroyed by two explosions. According to witnesses the minarets collapsed completely after being hit by bomb blasts around 0900 (0500 GMT). The shri.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 3:45pm neoform

Alter Net -- Shia leader and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the man Washington blames for its failure to gain control in Iraq, gives his perspective on the US involvement in Iraq: "The Americans are occupiers and thieves, and they must set a timetable to leave this country.".. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 11:05pm neoform

BBC News -- A top aide of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has said the Mehdi Army was not involved in the kidnapping of five Britons in Baghdad on Tuesday. Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari had said he believed the Shia militia group were behind the abduction.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 8:30am neoform

BBC News -- A Shia militia group is thought to be behind the kidnapping of five Britons in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said that the Mehdi Army, rather than al-Qaeda, could be responsible. The Anglican vicar of Baghdad, Cano.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 1:47am neoform

BBC News -- Moqtada Sadr, the radical Shia cleric, has backed a peace plan with Sunni factions in a bid to calm Iraq's sectarian violence. Mr Sadr, who appeared in Iraq for the first time in months at Friday prayers, said his followers would co-operate with Sunnis.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 11:37pm neoform

Independent -- The US Army tried to kill or capture Muqtada al-Sadr, the widely revered Shia cleric, after luring him to peace negotiations at a house in the holy city of Najaf, which it then attacked, according to a senior Iraqi government official. The revelation o.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Apr 27, 2007 @ 12:44pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Their killings were believed to be a revenge attack for the slaying of a Shia Muslim activist in January clashes between supporters of the government, which has Sunni backing, and the opposition, which includes Lebanon's main Shia groups. Rival leaders.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 12:37am neoform

BBC News -- The vice-president of Iraq, Tareq al-Hashemi, has called for talks to be opened with the country's insurgents in an attempt to bring peace. "I do believe that there is no way but to talk to everybody" with the exception of al-Qaeda, he said. He told.. Read More