Days later, his call for regime change was echoed by President Donald Trump, who has refused to rule out the US joining the ...

Shia Muslims have been derided as apostates in messages attributed to Zarqawi. ... the Mujahideen Shura Council. Two of these groups were known - the Victorious Sect Army and the Islamic Jihad Brigade ...

In Afghanistan, the Shia came to be seen as a thorn in the side of the mujahideen. The Iran-Iraq war polarized the region and heightened Shia-Sunni tension, even though it was also seen as an ...

Clashes between the Shia population and Afghan Mujahideen fighters began in 1986, when the former barred the latter from crossing their land to enter Afghanistan.

It also became the basis for US-backed armed action by the ‘mujahideen’ in neighbouring Afghanistan. Backed by Saudi Arabia, Sunni hardline groups began to counter the perceived threat of Shia ...