Article: ARAB-US RELATIONS - Dec 20 - Holy City Of Najaf Handed Over To Iraqis.

Article: Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 12 - Iraq Sunnis Fear Ethnic Cleansing:.
APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map;  December 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......systematic cleansing of the Sunni community by Shi'ite militias. He said some 3,000 Iraqis were...approved an American-backed coalition of Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties which...extremists, particularly the powerful Shi'ite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. Since...

Article: IRAQ - Aug 8 - Sadr To Dissolve Militia If Us Agrees To Withdraw Troops.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  August 9, 2008 ;     424 words ...Shi'ite leader Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered his Mehdi Army militia to lay down its arms...organization , he said in the Shi'ite stronghold of Najaf, about 160...would replace the 60,000-strong Mehdi Army with a leaner and meaner fighting...

Article: IRAQ - Oct 8 - US And Iraqi Troops Kill 30 In Shi'ite City Clashes.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  October 14, 2006 ;     665 words ......battles in the southern Shi'ite city of Diwaniya. People...a stronghold for the Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr...of national unity. A Mehdi Army official, who declined...issued orders to the Mehdi Army not to attack anybody...the ...

Article: LEBANON - Dec 5 - 'Shi'ite Blood Is Boiling', Say Lebanon Protestors.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  December 9, 2006 ;     440 words ......increasingly stretched as thousands of Shi'ite demonstrators attend the funeral of the...for a second night in clashes between Shi'ite demonstrators and Sunni government supporters...backgrounds, with Lebanon's main groups - Shi'ite, Sunni and Maronite Christians - having...

Article: Learning to live together: the winds of change that are sweeping through the region bring with them testing--and, for some, frightening--times in which the old orders will be challenged. Nicholas Blanford reports from Kuwait on growing Shi'ite influences and how the Sunnis are accommodating change.(CURRENT AFFAIRS)
The Middle East;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......representative in Kuwait of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's pre-eminent Shi'ite cleric. Indeed, other Shi'ite communities in the Gulf are becoming increasingly emboldened. The Shi'ite-led opposition in Bahrain at the end of March staged a massive rally...

Article: IRAQ - Jan 21 - Shi'ite Group Ends Boycott Ahead Of Moves To Curb Militias.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  January 27, 2007 ;     452 words ...Representatives of Iraq's radical Shi'ite Sadrist movement says they are ending...followed a bloody attack on US forces in the Shi'ite holy city of Karbala on Jan 20, in which...unknown and the city is home to several Shi'ite militant movements, the attack demonstrates...

Article: Resurgence In The Shi'ite World - Part 24 - Iraq & The Ja'fari Split.
APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map;  December 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ......division is developing within the Ja'fari Shi'ite society in the Muslim World. This reflects a serious power-struggle in the Shi'ite theocracy of Iran - the only such regime...other countries in the region which have Shi'ite communities (see Part 23 in rim5-IraqRegnlDangersNov19-...

Article: A new dawn for the Shi'ite faithful: the Arab world's Sunni governments have registered alarm at the Shi'ites' rise to power in Iraq.(REGIONAL)
The Middle East;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...THE EMERGENCE OF A SHI'ITE-DOMINATED government in Iraq, even if...by the majority Sunnis. They fear a Shi'ite crescent stretching from Asia to the...centrepiece the murderous campaign against the Shi'ite majority being waged by Abu Musab Al...

Article: Breaking up is hard to do; President George Bush and his policymakers insist there is no civil war in Iraq; few outside Washington would agree. As Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurd battle for supremacy, as the daily death toll spirals out of control and men like Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, the most moderate of Iraq's Shi'ite leaders, call it a day, hope diminishes and the situation for Iraqis looks increasingly desperate.
The Middle East;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Al Sistani, the most moderate of Iraq's Shi'ite leaders, abandoned his efforts to rein...Islamic virtue, had once been able to bold Shi'ite militants in check. But he has become...hardliners have taken control of the streets in Shi'ite areas while Iran has wooed the hardliners...

Article: Shi'ite Shrine Attack Raises Tension.
APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula;  June 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......was seen as an attempt to rekindle Sunni-Shi'ite violence, which has declined in recent...deployed extra troops in a bid to prevent Shi'ite militias from fanning out across the city...of thousands dead. Reprisal attacks by Shi'ite militia gave al-Qaeda, which already had...

Article: IRAQ - June 19 - Dozens die in attack on Shi'ite mosque.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  June 16, 2007 ;     424 words ......people died in a reported truck bomb attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, hours after 10...after the destruction of the minarets of the Shi'ite shrine in Samarra - one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites in Iraq - which had the...

Article: IRAQ - June 19 - Dozens Die In Attack On Shi'ite Mosque.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  June 23, 2007 ;     422 words ......people die in a reported truck bomb attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad, hours after 10,000 US troops...after the destruction of the minarets of the Shi'ite shrine in Samarra - one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites in Iraq - which had the...

Article: KURDISTAN - Shi'ite-Sunni Quarrel On Federalism.
APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula;  September 11, 2006 ;     441 words ...Shi'ite MPs are pushing ahead with legislation to...federalism to be renegotiated. Allowing Shi'ite-dominated provinces to break off and form...for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), a Shi'ite party. Federalist provisions in the new...

Article: IRAQ - Mar 26 - 30 Killed In Baghdad.
APS Diplomat Recorder;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......US troops clash with a Shi'ite militia. The developments...26 was turned away by Shi'ite militiamen. US troops...clashes erupted after the Mehdi Army militia loyal to theologian...disagreement , secular Shi'ite politician Wael Abdel-Lat...as a way of diluting ...