Sentence examples for Shiite Axis from inspiring English sources

This is commonly known as "the Shiite Axis," as Iran and Hezbollah are predominantly Shiite.

The Turks are increasingly worried about what they regard as an Iran-sponsored Shiite axis spanning the region.

Just look at the map: Syria and Lebanon form part of the so-called "Shiite axis'' that the Iranian regime has helped build and sustain over many years.

The advances by Shiite Iraqi and Lebanese militias are extending the sway of Iran far beyond the traditional Shiite axis of influence into Sunni areas of northern Syria.

The second is reconciliation: looking for diplomatic opportunities to bring the Sunni axis, led by the Saudis, toward some rapprochement with the Shiite axis, led by Iran.

Just look at the map: Syria and Lebanon form part of the so-called "Shiite axis" that the Iranian regime has helped build and sustain over many years.

The Shiite-Alawite axis is the most hated symbol of the Assad regime, and the Saudi connection can be very well used in order to moderate the Brotherhood and make it a more acceptable partner to the rest of the opposition.

This axis of Shiite hardliners appears set on battling the Sunni al-Qaeda forces without concessions to the Kurds or moderate Sunnis.

In fact, some Middle East scholars predict the rise of a Shiite Iran-Iraq-Syria axis, which could challenge Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Persian Gulf states for control of the region.

If there is a crossroads for the Middle East's axis of fundamentalist Shiites, hard-line Sunnis and Arab nationalists, it must be in this dusty, gridlocked suburb of Damascus.

One Sunni fighter said the Lebanon conflict was a plot by an Iranian-American-Israeli axis to spread the Shiite faith across the region.