The groups expressed worries over the incessant mortal clashes between the
Shi'ite devotees and security agencies, especially the police.
The main challenge to both Iran and Assad's regime was the opposition of Iraq's poor
Shi'ite Arabs to both Tehran's efforts to keep Baghdad under its control and Assad's reliance on Iraqi financial aid.
Buses began evacuating hundreds of people from two rebel-besieged
Shi'ite villages in north-west Syria on Friday and rebels began to leave two towns near Damascus with their families, under a deal between the government and insurgents.
The PMF groups want to join the QF-guided Zaidi
Shi'ite rebels of the Houthi clan, whose north-western province of Sa'da borders Saudi Arabia and is out of bounds for the Iraqi Safawis.
Bahrain: As many as 11,000
Shi'ite Bahraini women are unable to divorce their husbands because religious and political leaders blocked a law that would grant them increased rights in domestic disputes, according to an MP.
The latest clash is driving up oil prices, deepening a sectarian divide and sparking new violence in the region, reports Sam Wilkin for Reuters: "Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran on Sunday and fellow-Sunni Bahrain followed suit on Monday, two days after Iranian demonstrators stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran in protest at Riyadh's execution of a senior
Shi'ite cleric." Saudi Arabia is the second largest petroleum producer, and Iran is seventh.
RIYADH -- A suicide bomber blew himself up at a
Shi'ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers, residents said, and up to 30 people were reported to have been killed or wounded.
A senior
Shi'ite cleric has described a US report on religious freedom in Bahrain as an attempt to divide the country along sectarian lines.
BAGHDAD Thu Dec 19, 2013 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up near a funeral tent on Thursday, killing at least 10
Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in southern Baghdad's mainly Sunni neighborhood of Doura, police sources said.