Iran dismissed on Wednesday Egyptian accusations against Lebanon’s Shi’ite militia Hezbollah as an "old trick".

A pilgrimage could prevent thousands of Iraq’s Shi’ite Muslims from voting in an upcoming election.

Saddam Hussein’s notorious hatchet-man, Hassan al-Majid, was on Tuesday sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the 1991 Shi’ite uprising.

Three suicide bombers, believed to be women, killed 25 Shi’ite pilgrims on Monday as they headed to a holy shrine in Baghdad.

Iraqi police and soldiers swept house to house through the southern city of Amara on Thursday in a new crackdown on Shi’ite fighters.