Tag: Shiite
Nigerian police deny killing Shi’ites in Abuja procession
Nigerian police denied killing members of a banned Shi'ite Muslim group who had gathered in the capital Abuja on Tuesday, saying they had arrested...
Nigerian court acquits Shi’ite leader Zakzaky and wife of all charges
A Nigerian court on Wednesday acquitted Ibrahim Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), a banned Shi'ite group, of all eight criminal...
Shi’ite group declared terrorists
A Nigerian court granted government permission to label a local Shi’ite Muslim group a terrorist organisation, the solicitor general told Reuters.
Members of the Islamic...
More Shi’ite, security forces clashes in Nigeria
Nigerian troops and police again clashed with Shi’ite Muslim protesters in Abuja and gunfire was heard, according to a Reuters witness.
The air was thick...
Police, Shi’ite Muslims clash in Abuja
Nigerian police and Shi’ite Muslim protesters clashed in Abuja on Monday, with at least a demonstrator, journalist and a senior policeman killed, highlighting security...
Shi’ite rivalry paralyses Iraq’s government
A growing rivalry between two powerful Shi'ite Muslim factions has paralysed efforts to form a government in Iraq six months after an...
Iraq could split if Shi’ite militias enter Mosul
Iraq is at risk of partition and the worst sectarian bloodletting since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion if Shi'ite paramilitary units get involved...
U.S. says concerned by deaths of Nigerian Shi’ites in clash with...
The United States on Friday said it was concerned by the deaths of Nigerians in clashes between Shi'ite Muslims and police earlier...
Islamic State leader says “no retreat” from Mosul assault
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told his followers on Thursday there could be no retreat in a "total war" against the...
Amnesty accuses Nigerian army of mass killings of Shi’ites in northern...
Amnesty International said on Friday that Nigeria's army killed hundreds of men, women and children from a minority Shi'ite Muslim sect last...
Amnesty urges probe over allegation Nigerian army secretly buried Shi’ites
Claims by a Kaduna state official that Nigeria's military secretly buried 347 people after clashes with members of a minority Shi'ite Muslim...
Insight – Nigeria faces new rift over alleged Shi’ite massacre
Piles of rubble are all that remain of the residence of Nigeria's most prominent Shi'ite Muslim leader after it was demolished by...
At least 60 killed as Nigerian army raids Shi’ite sect, hospital...
At least 60 people were killed this weekend when the Nigerian army raided a Shi'ite sect and arrested its leader in the...
Iraqi forces slowed by snipers and bombs in Tikrit
Iraqi security forces and mainly Shi'ite militia exchanged fire sporadically with Islamic State fighters in Tikrit on Thursday, a day after they...
Survivors say Iraqi forces watched as Shi’ite militias executed 72 Sunnis
Survivors tell the same story: they were taken from their homes by men in uniform; heads down and linked together, then led...
Sunni officials in Iraq say Shi’ite militias kill 70 after IS...
Sunni politicians and tribal chiefs from Iraq's eastern Diyala province accused Shi'ite militias on Monday of killing more than 70 unarmed civilians...
Yemeni soldiers kill four Shi’ites as protests rage
Yemeni soldiers opened fire on Shi'ite Muslim protesters trying to storm the cabinet building in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, killing at...
Iraq’s Shi’ite militia, Kurds use U.S. air strikes to further own...
A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in...
Shi’ite militia hangs up 15 executed Sunnis in Iraqi square
Iraqi Shi'ite militia forces executed 15 Sunni Muslims and then hung them from electricity poles in a public square in the town...
Nigeria Shi’ite leader says military kills 3 sons, 30 supporters
The leader of Nigeria's minority Shi'ite Muslims accused the military on Saturday of killing three of his sons and 30 of his...
Shi’ite group hands back army camp to Yemeni government
Shi'ite Muslim tribesmen handed back an army camp to the Yemeni government on Saturday, a spokesman for the group said, to try...
Yemeni Shi’ites capture city after fighting kills 200
Shi'ite Muslim fighters captured one of the main cities in northern Yemen on Tuesday, a local official and residents said, after fighting...
Iraq army retakes Saddam Hussein’s home village from Islamist rebels
The Iraqi army drove Sunni insurgents out of late dictator Saddam Hussein's home village, state media and police said, part of a...
Sectarian genie is out of the bottle from Syria to Iraq
As jihadists storm through the Sunni heartlands of Iraq towards Baghdad, where a Shi'ite government they regard as heretic clings on, they...
Two Yemeni soldiers killed as Houthi fighters hit army base
Two Yemeni soldiers were killed on Thursday when Shi'ite Muslim Houthi tribal fighters attacked an army base near the capital Sanaa, military...
At least 40 killed in Yemen as Houthi fighters near capital
At least 40 people have been killed in three days of fighting between Shi'ite Muslim rebels and Sunni tribesmen, sources on both...
Suicide bomber kills 45 in Iraqi city of Hilla
A suicide bomber driving a minibus packed with explosives killed at least 45 people and wounded 157 on Sunday in the southern...
At least 13 killed in north Yemen clashes
At least 13 people died when Shi'ite Muslim fighters clashed with security forces in northern Yemen on Friday, government sources said, underlining...
Bomb attacks kill at least 24 in Iraq capital
At least 24 people were killed in bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital late on Monday, including blasts near two Shi'ite Muslim...
Car bomb attacks across Iraq kill at least 39
Car bombs killed at least 39 people across Iraq on Sunday and wounded more than 120, mainly targeting busy commercial streets in...
North Yemen fighting kills more than 120
Fighting between Shi'ite Houthi rebels and Sunni Salafis in northern Yemen has killed more than 120 and a government official in charge...
Islamist rebels behead fellow fighter by mistake
A group of Syrian Sunni Muslim rebels linked to al Qaeda have beheaded one of their own wounded fighters after mistaking him...
Suicide bomber attacks Iraqi Shi’ite pilgrims, killing 35
A suicide bomber blew himself up during a Shi'ite Muslim religious ritual in the eastern Iraqi city of al-Sadiya on Thursday, killing...
Analysis: Yemen fighting risks deepening sectarian divisions
A deadly assault by Shi'ite Houthi rebels on a Salafi Islamic school planted in their mountain heartland could ignite wider sectarian conflict...
Bombings target Iraq police, pilgrims, killing 19
At least 19 people were killed in bomb attacks targeting Iraqi police and pilgrims on Wednesday, police and medical sources said, just...
Yemen ceasefire deal violated a day after coming into force
A government-brokered ceasefire intended to halt days of clashes in northern Yemen between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim fighters has been violated a...
Sunni-Shi’ite tension biggest threat to world security, Iran says
Tension between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims is the biggest threat to world security, Iran's foreign minister said in comments published on Monday,...
Suicide bombers kill at least 16 soldiers at Iraqi base
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up minutes apart at an Iraqi army base late on Thursday, killing at least 16 soldiers, police...
Overnight shelling takes death toll in north Yemen to 100, say...
Overnight shelling has taken the death toll from fighting between rival Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim groups in a northern town in Yemen...
Death toll in attack on Salafi-held town in Yemen rises to...
The death toll from a Shi'ite Muslim Houthi attack on a mountain town in north Yemen held by their Salafi Sunni Muslim...
Spate of attacks on Shi’ite Muslims kills 59 people in Iraq
Attacks on Shi'ite Muslims killed at least 59 people across Iraq on Thursday, including a suicide truck bomb targeting members of the...
