An Iraqi man prays on the tomb of an unknown person at a cemetery in the central city of Karbala. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims are mainly expressed through different religious ...

Blasts rocked two Sunni mosques in central Iraq on Monday, amid fears of renewed sectarian strife following Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shia cleric, police and medics said. Groups of ...

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Ali Abbas, spokesperson for Iraq's migration ministry, said in November that around 10,000 Yazidis had returned to Shingal this year.

If Maliki's government can't bring Sunnis into the fold, says Mohammed Tawfeeq at CNN, Iraqi leaders and foreign diplomats fear the feuding between Sunnis and Shiites "could escalate and bring a ...

No Iraqi or American forces will be able to end the insurgency or disarm the numerous militias. The violence will continue to rage because for the Sunnis it has become a matter of survival itself.

BEIRUT - Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim ruling parties and armed groups are weighing the pros and cons of armed intervention in Syria, viewing as a grave threat the advance of Sunni Islamist rebels who have ...

Some PMUs have been accused of abuses against Sunni civilians, including torture and killings, during previous operations to regain territory from IS in Iraq. PMU militia were also involved in ...

He was forced out of office in 2014 after IS swept through Iraq, capturing Mosul and great swathes of predominantly Sunni territory. Mr Maliki's sectarian policies so alienated Sunnis that ...

Iraq weighs intervention amid Sunni rebel push in Syria Baghdad distrusts rebels' claims of no ambitions in Iraq Iraqi factions divided on potential intervention in Syria BEIRUT, Dec 6 (Reuters ...