BAGHDAD, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament elected on Thursday Sunni lawmaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani as its speaker, lawmakers said, breaking a nearly year-long deadlock over the position that ...
(REUTERS Photo) Sunni and Shiite Muslim tribes have been engaged in intermittent fighting for several months in the Kurram district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Also Read: Israeli ...
Mashhadani and another Sunni politician, Salem al-Issaw, raced again in the second round. The former won the top position after garnering most of the votes in the 329-seat parliament.
If you have been around for more than a few days, the rhetoric about never-ending Sunni-Shia war and mayhem is never far from the minds of western political leaders, think-tank inhabitants ...
“The Olympic symbol consists of five interlaced rings of equal dimensions (the Olympic rings), used alone, in one or in five different colours. When used in its five-colour version, these colours ...
In a strongly worded statement, the Cairo-based Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Muslim learning in ... said that Sinwar’s death made him a symbol of heroic resistance.