Sentence examples for Is shiites from inspiring English sources

What their rulers hear is "Shiites taking over from Sunnis".

It is Shiites who have most consistently fought Saddam Hussein since 1991, when Shiite clerics called for an uprising.

" "I know he is Shiite, but he is secular and he will work for us," said Ziad Atta, 42, a trader.

Isn't Shiite Iran, a perpetual foe of Sunni jihadist groups, also fighting the Islamic State?

Is this Shiite Crescent an outcome which Mr. Kerry considers an acceptable consequence of U.S. retrenchment, inadequate strategy, and Iranian expansionism?

Is Stalled by Shiite Militia An assault by thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police officers to regain control of Basra stalled as Shiite militiamen fought daylong hit-and-run battles and refused to withdraw.

A3 Aide to Shiite Cleric Is Killed A senior aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, was gunned down on his way to Friday Prayer in Baghdad, and a suicide car bomb exploded near the office of a major Shiite political party, an Interior Ministry official said.

If I asked someone on the street what is a Shiite and Sunni, few would know.

Iran is predominantly Shiite.

The village is entirely Shiite.

Hezbollah is a Shiite organization.