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Two Lebanese clerics have called for a holy war to defend Sunni Muslims in Syria, saying they are coming under attack from Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim Hezbollah.
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Iraqi Finance Minister Rafih al- Issawi, one of the most senior Sunni Muslims in the Shiite Muslim-led government, announced his resignation at an anti- government rally, heightening political tensions.
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Syria’s two-year civil war has made 5 million people into refugees or aid recipients and left virtually no safe areas for civilians, the United Nations said.
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Yemen’s Shiite Muslim Houthis killed 24 Salafist Sunni Muslims yesterday after a week of sporadic fighting between the two religious communities in the north of the country near the border with Saudi Arabia.
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The bomb plot had all the hallmarks of a spy thriller: a former Lebanese politician gets caught with explosives by an informant using a camera-equipped pen and triggers a dawn raid by police.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broke more than 30 years of political stalemate with Egypt, arriving in the Sunni Muslim country on a historic trip that may create new challenges for his Islamist Egyptian counterpart.
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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said he is ready to hold talks to end the conflict that began almost two years ago as the U.K. offered aid to rebels against his regime.
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Egyptian authorities have released on bail four conservative Salafis arrested after brandishing their footwear at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shortly after another man attempted to use a shoe to strike the Iranian president.
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Syrian opposition groups are debating who should head a provisional government as they prepare for an Istanbul meeting to announce their first formal alternative to President Bashar al-Assad’s administration.
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The U.S. plans to announce “additional, significant” humanitarian funding for Syrians during an international donors’ conference next week in Kuwait, the State Department said today in a statement.
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