Iran Condemns Attack on Home of Sheikh Qassim

TEHRAN A senior Iranian official has warned the Manama government against the consequences of Bahraini security forces raid on the house of top Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, which took place on Friday. The Bahraini government has crossed ...

Given the ideological differences between the Sunni militant group al-Qaeda and the theocratic Shia government in Iran, recent allegations that the two groups had conspired in a foiled attack in Canada struck many observers as odd. But two years ...

Hezbollah Should Keep Away from Syria Crisis Interview with Hojjatollah Joudaki, analyst of Regional Issues and Iran's Former Cultural Advisor to Egypt Perhaps, it would be no exaggeration if one claimed that the biggest war which is currently ...

Strong Egypt Party founder Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh says tourists from predominantly Shia Iran pose no threat to Egypt Egyptians should not feel threatened by tourists from Iran, Strong Egypt Party founder Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh has said. "Around ...

It is difficult to believe that there is an operational alliance between Iran, a hard-line Shia Muslim state, and al-Qaeda, an extremist Sunni Muslim outfit. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban do not even regard Shias as Muslims. The two sides regard each ...

More than 50 Lebanese political leaders hold talks with Assad while Hassan Nasrallah appears likely to go

BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 60 people, including Iranian Shia pilgrims, were killed in a series of car bombings and shootings across Iraq Monday, officials said. The worst hit in Monday's violence was Baghdad where eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ...

Matters were made worse by the US occupation, with authorities playing favorites by privileging the Shia on the mistaken notion that Sunnis largely supported Saddam Hussein and therefore must not be allowed access to the levers of power. This ...

: The war of words (and occasional violence) between the Sunni Arabs of Arabia and the Shia Iranians does have one beneficial angle. Each side accurately accuses the other of various political crimes and gets these ugly facts out into the open. Many ...