Iranians are predominately Shiites while Syria's ruling elite is most Alawite, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
In the coming week, 2 million Shiites are expected to attend services in Najaf and Karbala.
For Shiites I spoke to, the attack on the shrine was simply the last straw.
While Sistani still holds immense influence in Iraq, he does not dictate to all the Shiites.
Iraqi Shiites were suppressed under the Hussein regime, which favored the country's minority Sunni Muslims.
Natonski's conversations with the Shiites here, the townspeople said they need food, water and electricity.
Karrada is a mixed commercial and residential area inhabited mostly by Shiites and Christians.
Bahrain's Shiites account for about 70 percent of the kingdom's more than 550, 000 native-born citizens.
Trying to pin him down on just who is attacking the Shiites is difficult.
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And we see part of this in the Shiites and the Sunnis over there.
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So while Shiites are moving there in large numbers seeking protection, if they're moving from Sunni-dominated areas.
His 2006 book, The Shia Revival, is a study of the intra-Islamic split between Sunnis and Shiites.
For the first time, there are as many Sunnis as Shiites training here to be national policemen.
The pilgrims are among tens of thousands of Shiites making their way to northern Baghdad's Kadhimiya Shrine.
Shiites started fleeing about nine months ago when they became the targets of threats, kidnappings and killings.
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While such shrines are highly revered by Shiites, a number of Sunni radicals believe they amount to sacrilege.
This is - the name sounds similar, but this is a Shiite neighborhood that is holy to the Shiites.
The city has a mix of Kurds, as you say, Sunnis and Shiites.
Since then, Mr. Mikati has navigated between Lebanon's two rival sects and political blocs loyal to Sunnis and Shiites.
Some predicted the execution would exacerbate violence between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq.
And when I asked these Shiites from Samarra, what about your Sunni neighbors?
Maybe the Shiites a little bit more, but that doesn't mean that the Sunni Arab is as small as that, their percentages.
The Shiites felt that Ali should have been the first of the caliphs.
Two early Islamic figures revered by Shiites are buried in the city, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of Baghdad.
The gulf widened in 2005, when Sunnis boycotted the country's election, opening the way to a government dominated by Shiites.
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Unlike the elections in January, 2005, this one will include Sunnis candidates and voters as well as Shiites and Kurds.
For most of the 20th century, for instance, there was hardly ever any trouble between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq.
Shiites form a majority in Iraq but for years they were dominated by minority Sunnis empowered by Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein.
Overall, Sunni parties appear to have won about 50 seats, slightly fewer than the Kurdish parties and far fewer than the Iraq's majority Shiites.
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