Meanings of mostly shia in English

About 127 people were wounded by the blast in the poor, mostly Shia Muslim area.

The unrest began spontaneously with no formal leadership in mostly Shia areas in the south, and quickly spread.

In the past, similar attacks in this mostly Shia area of the capital have been attributed to IS.

Casualties were mostly Shia-led security forces.

The workers were thought to be mostly Shia and the plant is located in a predominantly Sunni Arab area.

The explosion was in Jadida a mostly Shia district in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital, police said.

Outrage over the massacre of the mostly Shia cadets helped mobilise Iraq's Shia militias in the fight against IS.

Twin roadside bombs killed two people and wounded 9 in a mostly Shia district of the southern Doura neighbourhood, police said.

A suicide truck bomb in Iraq has killed more than 100 people, mostly Shia pilgrims at a petrol station south of Baghdad.

The June 2014 incident is notorious after IS posted videos and pictures of the execution of the mostly Shia soldiers on social media.

The mostly Shia Muslim middle-class neighbourhood of Jadriya celebrated the vote with a lightness of heart that has all but disappeared from today's Iraq.