This religious schism is reflected in the wider map of the ... between Saudi Arabia and Iran have been sharpened by a series of events. The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq overthrew Saddam Hussein ...
Its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been instrumental in advances against Sunni jihadists in Syria as well as in Iraq. Iran also believes Saudi Arabia is trying to destabilise ...
The growing rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran—and by extension ... itself mostly in the Middle East—namely in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Bahrain—general instability and war threaten ...