"The Sunni-Shiite conflict is in the open now. It's been triggered and operationalized," said Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.
Since
Clashes raged in Lebanon over the weekend, with Hizbollah forces briefly taking over West Beirut. Five days of fighting have killed forty-four people. The street battles between Sunnis and Shia
Indonesian authorities have detained a militant suspected of involvement in the 2005 triple suicide Bali bombing that killed more than 200 people. Faiz Fauzan of the Jemaah Islamiah militant group
Palestinian donor nations are meeting today in London to discuss the current humanitarian crisis affecting 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip. Washington is mounting pressure on Arab League
During a procession to mark the end of Soviet occupation, Taliban insurgents fired rockets and automatic weapons in Kabul yesterday. Their target was Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai. Karzai escaped
Men suspected of belonging to the Jemaah Islamiyah militant Islamist group are currently being held in "preventative" detention in Malaysia. The Jemaah Islamiyah is responsible for the 2002
Somalia's lawless capital, Mogadishu, was yet again the scene of vicious battling that left more than eighty dead. An intense exchange of small arms and mortar fire between
Russian President Vladmir Putin says Russia will recognize the legal entities in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia inside Georgia. The announcement, made on Wednesday, drew a strong
On his return to his natal home near Kirkuk, Iraqi journalist Jasim Sabawi left behind Iran and looked to a future without Saddam Hussein. In 2004, he ventured to Baghdad
Riots in Haiti, violent protests in Ivory Coast, forty killed in riots in Cameroon, demonstrations in Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Bolivia, Indonesia, and now Egypt. The alarming increase in
Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki issued an ultimatumtoday calling upon Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to disband his Mahdi Army or face a ban from upcoming provincial elections. The declaration follows a
The Basra operation was seen as a test of the resolve and capability of the Iraqi security forces. To ensure success, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki sent in more than 30,
