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Tensions

By FIRST PERSON | By Alex Magno | January 4, 2016 - 9:00am

The deep slide in oil prices kept importing countries happy the last few months.

Opinion

Little progress in key plank of Obama anti-IS strategy

By Ken Dilanian and Robert Burns | March 12, 2015 - 1:48pm

U.S. military and intelligence officials are voicing increasing pessimism about a key tenet of the Obama administration's...

World

Uneasy alliance of Kurds, Shiites formed in northern Iraq

By Vivian Salama | February 18, 2015 - 4:31am

Shiite militiamen shuttle back and forth to the nearby front lines from a sprawling military base near the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk. They hoist billboards of their commander, bellow Shiite prayers from mosque...

World

Iran eclipses US as Iraq's ally in fight against militants

By Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra | January 13, 2015 - 2:18am

In the eyes of most Iraqis, their country's best ally in the war against the Islamic State group is not the United States and the coalition air campaign against the militants. It's Iran, which is credited with stopping...

World

Yemen's Shiite, Sunni rivals hold rare meeting

November 29, 2014 - 3:39am

Yemen's main Sunni Islamist party says its top leaders have met with the powerful Shiite rebels who have been battling it for months and control the capital, in a rare meeting that might help ease the country's political...

World

Iraqi Shiite militias grow brutal in anti-IS fight

By Sinan Salaheddin and Sameer N. Yacoub | November 12, 2014 - 2:44am

The vengeance that Iraq's Shiite militias mete out as they fight the Islamic State group can be just as brutal as that of their sworn sectarian enemies.

World

Saudi sentences iconic Shiite cleric to death

By Aya Batrawy | October 16, 2014 - 3:33am

A well-known Shiite cleric was sentenced to death yesterday by a court in Saudi Arabia, sparking fears of renewed unrest from his supporters in the kingdom and neighboring Bahrain.

World

Kerry issues warning after Syria bombs Iraq

By Hamza Hendawi and Lara Jakes | June 26, 2014 - 7:18am

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Mideast nations on yesterday against taking new military action in Iraq that might heighten sectarian divisions, after Syria launched airstrikes across the border and Iran...

World

Iraq militia parades as insurgents seize crossing

By Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra | June 22, 2014 - 5:06am

Thousands of heavily-armed Shiite militiamen paraded through several Iraqi cities on yesterday as Sunni militants seized two strategically located towns in what appeared to be a new offensive in the western Anbar...

World

Iran's general in Iraq, militants seize key city

By Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra | June 17, 2014 - 7:04am

In a sign of Iran's deepening involvement in the Iraqi crisis, the commander of Tehran's elite Quds Force is helping Iraq's military and Shiite militias gear up to fight the Sunni insurgents who have advanced across...

World