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The article reports on the explosions of three bombs during a procession commemorating the Shiite Muslim holiday of Ashura in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in October 2015.

The article focuses on Shiite refugees in Iraq who have come to their sect's holy city of Najaf to seek assistance. There are as many as several hundreds thousand of these internally displaced persons in the area. They are kept in dismal camps far from the city in squalid conditions. Iraq has almost no resources to deal with its internal refugees. The displaced Shiites are furious the Shiite-dominated government of Nuri al-Maliki has not come to their aid.

Reports that two Sunni Arabs involved in drafting Iraq's constitution were assassinated in Baghdad, setting back the country's fledgling democratic process. Details of the attack on Mejbil al-Sheik Isa and Damin al-Obeidi and their bodyguard Azis Ebrahim; Roles of Isa and Obeidi in the new government; Concerns that efforts to undermine the insurgency by making the process more inclusive could be jeopardized; Possible suspects in the killings, including a militant group in Iraq led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; Condemnation of the assassinations by Sunni Arabs and Shiites.

AMARA, Iraq -- The Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, who in the past decade has been both an anti-American insurgency leader and a behind-the-scenes power broker, is not expected to be personally in attendance when Iraq's leaders sketch out a new government on Monday. But with his followers standing to gain control of powerful government posts, his influence is likely to become apparent in many facets of Iraqi public life, from the halls of Parliament to the tomato farms and marshlands here in southeastern Iraq. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RAMADI, Iraq -- As Iraq's political blocs remain unable to form a national government, lawmakers and residents here in Anbar Province are challenging central control of the natural resources within their territory. The conflict -- which pits a Sunni province against a mostly Shiite administration -- adds a new battle line in one of the country's most divisive and volatile issues: who controls the vast untapped oil and gas reserves that are necessary to restart Iraq's crippled economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BAGHDAD -- The electoral coalitions of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and the other major Shiite bloc in Iraq announced a postelection alliance on Tuesday night that cleared the way for a Shiite-dominated government for the next four years. The new alliance -- not unlike the one that emerged after Iraq's last parliamentary election in 2005 -- strengthens the position of the country's main Shiite parties but does not yet guarantee Mr. Maliki re-election for a second term. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Leaders from all of Iraq's major political parties gathered Saturday to mourn a leading Sunni politician who was assassinated Friday at a Baghdad mosque, even as the motive for the killing remained unclear. The party leaders rushed to condemn the killing of the Sunni leader, Harith al-Obaidi, and the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki went to great lengths to accord Mr. Obaidi respect, staging an elaborate funeral that was broadcast live on Iraqi state television. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A series of six car bombings in and near Baghdad killed at least 33 people and wounded scores on Monday, according to witnesses and the police, in a convulsion of violence that underscored the heightened tensions between Sunni fighters and Iraq's government. Most of the bombs struck largely Shiite neighborhoods, but there did not appear to be any other obvious pattern to the attacks. There were no claims of responsibility, and Iraqis disagreed about whom to blame. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Haunted by ghosts, the middle-aged farmer walked slowly through his home village, a place so devastated he had difficulty recognizing his own house among the ruins. Once a well-tended Shiite farming community in a part of Diyala Province with many Sunnis, it is now little more than piles of shattered concrete. Half-fallen roofs slant earthward at odd angles; the skeletons of rooms are filled with debris. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that at least 39 people were killed in assassinations and car bombs in Iraq on July 17, 2007, and a massacre of Shiite civilians in Diyala Province killed 29 people on July 16, 2007. According to a police official at the Interior Ministry, one car bomb exploded in the Zayouna killing 20 people and wounding 20. In Diyala, the attack on the small hamlet of Dulayiya, a Shiite community, came when people gathered to watch a match of the Iraqi soccer in the Asian Games.

The article presents information about the changes made to the Iraqi Shiite party Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. The changes include dropping of the word "Revolution" from the name of the party and the replacement of Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with Iraq's cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani as the dominant spiritual leader of the party. According to a member of Parliament from the Dawa Party, the move reflected an emphasis on Iraqi nationalism.

The article reports that leaders of the Sunni and secular parties plan on asking the Shiite bloc to withdraw Ibrahim Jaafari, its prime minister candidate, for Iraq's new government.

Reports that Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, will issue a religious ruling instructing Shiites to vote in favor of the country's draft constitution in a referendum planned for October 15, 2005.

Reports on the failure of the majority Shiite and Kurdish political parties to agree to form a coalition government in Iraq.

This article was reported by Richard A. Oppel Jr., Mudhafer al-HusainiandAli Hameed, and written by Mr. Oppel. Explosives stowed in a minibus obliterated part of a bustling marketplace and set ablaze a crowded apartment building in the heavily Shiite Huriya district of northwest Baghdad, killing at least 51 people and wounding 75 late Tuesday afternoon, Iraqi security officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The authors report that gunmen dressed as Iraqi police commandos in vehicles with Iraqi Interior Ministry markings kidnapped 55 people from the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education in Baghdad, Iraq. Orders for the arrest of police commanders from the Karada area near the Ministry were given. The actions intensify pressures on Iraqi prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. The government's swift response broke with a pattern of inaction in earlier mass kidnapping apparently linked to Shiite death squads.

BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims home from Samarra on Saturday, killing at least 33 people in the latest of several recent assaults on pilgrims. It was the second attack in three days against Shiite pilgrims near Samarra, whose gold-domed shrine was damaged in a 2006 bombing that led to waves of sectarian killings between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A series of bombings rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 100, and there were two separate attacks on American military convoys in Baghdad in which at least three people were killed. The violence was the worst to hit the Iraqi capital since American combat troops withdrew on June 30, providing another test of Iraq's ability to defend itself as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki left for talks with President Obama in Washington. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Jabbar, an elderly Shiite man, stormed out of his house here in June wanting to know where all his furniture had gone, the sharp look of the young Sunni standing guard on his street stopped him cold. The young man said nothing, but his expression made things clear: Jabbar had no home here anymore. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Shiite-dominated government in Iraq is driving out many leaders of Sunni citizen patrols, the groups of former insurgents who joined the American payroll and have been a major pillar in the decline in violence around the nation. In restive Diyala Province, United States and Iraqi military officials say there were orders to arrest hundreds of members of what is known as the Awakening movement as part of large security operations by the Iraqi military. At least five senior members have been arrested there in recent weeks, leaders of the groups say. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, making an unannounced stop in Baghdad on Sunday, praised the Iraqi government's decision to take on Shiite militia members in Basra and in Baghdad and painted an upbeat picture of the Iraqi government's progress toward unifying the country. Ms. Rice, who visited the Iraqi capital on her way to a conference in Kuwait of Iraq's neighbors, said that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's government ''has made a choice to pursue militias and is willing to bear the consequences.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that militant Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has denounced new security plan for Baghdad, Iraq. According to a press statement released on February 25, 2007, the cleric said that the security plan would fail if it is directed by the American military. While it is unclear why the cleric opposed the joint American-Iraqi military plan, his followers are reported to have lost patience with the continued violence against Shiites.

The article discusses a lack of support for Iraqi prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's attempts to remain in power despite Iraqi president Fuad Masum's nomination of politician Haider al-Abadi as Iraq's next prime minister. Topics addressed include a decline in support for Maliki from the Iranian government, Iraqi military and the Shiite Islamist Dawa Party political party, as well as Abadi's comments on Maliki.

The article discusses Iraqi president Fuad Masum's nomination of Shiite Muslim political leader Haider al-Abadi as prime minister of Iraq, highlighting Iraqi prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's refusal to step down as prime minister. Topics addressed include allegations regarding Maliki's role in fueling sectarian tensions in the country and the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Sunni Muslim extremist organization, as well as U.S. responses to political instability in Iraq.

This article describes a suicide bomb attack in a marketplace in Baghdad, Iraq that killed at least 130 Iraqis and wounded at least 300. The bomb, ignited in a truck in the mostly Shiite neighborhood, will put more pressure on Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al Maliki by the U.S. to crack down on Shiite militias. The Shiites will be pressuring Maliki to avenge the bombing by attacking the Sunnis. The U.S. and others are trying to prevent such action to avoid the outbreak of full-scale civil war.

The authors report that the Iraqi government dismissed its two most senior police commanders who had led Iraq's special police commandos and its public order brigade. Iraq Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is under strong U.S. pressure to eliminate Shitte militias and death squads from within the ranks of Iraq's special police forces.

A suicide bomber in northern Iraq killed nine people on Friday, in the second attack in 24 hours on Shiite pilgrims traveling to Karbala to celebrate one of the holiest days in the Shiite calendar, the Iraqi police said. A pickup truck exploded near the central bus station at Balad, a largely Shiite town in the overwhelmingly Sunni province of Salahuddin. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thirty trucks rolled down the main streets of Sadr City on Saturday morning, sent in to begin shoveling trash after a parliamentary delegation visited the Shiite neighborhood and expressed concerns that fighting had sidelined basic services. But a little more than an hour after the city crews went to work, clashes broke out between Iraqi soldiers and militia fighters loyal to the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, and the trucks turned around and went home again. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Heavy fighting broke out Tuesday in two of Iraq's largest cities, as Iraqi ground forces and helicopters mounted a huge operation to break the grip of the Shiite militias controlling Basra, and Iraqi forces clashed with militias in Baghdad. The fighting threatened to destabilize a long-term truce that had helped reduce the level of violence in the five-year-old Iraq war. The battles, along with indications in recent weeks that militia and insurgent attacks had already been creeping up, raised fears across Iraq that Moktada al-Sadr, the renegade Shiite cleric, could pull out of a cease-fire he declared last summer. If his Mahdi Army militia does step up attacks, that could in turn slow American troop withdrawals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on sectarian violence killing Shiites in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 28, 2007. In the attacks believed to have been carried out by Sunni Arab militants, dozens of Shiites were killed in Shiite neighborhood of Baya. Ten Shiites were killed in a bombing in Kadhimiya, on June 27, 2007. The attacks were carried out days ahead of a scheduled rally of Shiites to condemn the destruction of Askariya shrine in Samarra.

The article reports on the flight of Shiite families from sectarian violence to Baghdad, Iraq.