anti-Shiite

Tehran's leadership believed that holding bin Laden relatives and al-Qaeda officials could offer a guarantee against attacks by the terror group's anti-Shiite elements.

Top al-Qaeda ranks keep footholds in Iran 2011

The rights group Amnesty International said Taliban fighters stormed the Iranian consulate as part of its anti-Shiite purges.

Top al-Qaeda ranks keep footholds in Iran 2011

Over the weekend, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan cast doubts on the claim of responsibility made in calls to news outlets by men claiming to represent Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the anti-Shiite group based in Pakistan.

U.S. Commander Backs Afghan Militia Program Dion Nissenbaum 2011

The explicitly anti-Shiite Sipah-e-Sahaba Soldiers of the Prophet's Companions, born in southern Punjab in 1985, took up the cause of Sunni peasants in a region dominated by large Shiite landowners.

Pakistan's Low-Grade Civil War Sadanand Dhume 2011

KABUL—The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said he doubted a Pakistani anti-Shiite group's claim of responsibility for Tuesday's explosion outside a Kabul Shiite shrine, but said he believed the devastating attack was indeed planned on Pakistani soil.

U.S. Envoy Doubts Claim of Responsibility for Blast Dion Nissenbaum 2011

That's an invitation to someone like Khamenei to push further, to attack both America and Iran's most detested Middle Eastern rival, the virulently anti-Shiite Saudi Arabia.

Iran's Act of War Reuel Marc Gerecht 2011

Many of the anti-Shiite sectarian groups, such as Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, that have their roots in Pakistan's Punjab province, the nation's political heartland, have migrated to the northwest and teamed up with the Pakistan Taliban in recent years.

Gunmen Kill Saudi Security Official in Pakistan Tom Wright 2011

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik accused an anti-Shiite sectarian group and the Pakistani Taliban of colluding in the killing of the provincial assembly member, Raza Haider, who was shot dead in a mosque washroom Monday evening.

Pakistan government stretched thin amid deadly violence, flooding 2010

Amim Khattak, a top ANP official in southern Pakistan, said that Haider was killed by a virulently anti-Shiite organization, and that the MQM had wrongly assumed the motive was ethnic.

Pakistan government stretched thin amid deadly violence, flooding 2010

Baathism's vicious mix of anti-Shiite apartheid and anti-Kurd quasi-genocide justifies this.

Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy Bartle Bull 2010