A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs.
1Lawmakers from southern predominantly Shi'ite Muslim provinces had bickered over budget allocations.
2The Shi'ite Muslim group is stridently anti-American and is backed by Iran.
3Lebanon is the home of the Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah.
4Most of the infections were in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Qom.
5The attack came after Riyadh's execution of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric on Saturday.
6Most of the Iran infections were in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Qom.
7Most of the infections have been in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Qom.
8In a subsequent crackdown by the government hundreds of mostly Shi'ite Muslim workers were fired.
9The country has a Shi'ite Muslim majority, but is ruled by a Sunni ruling family.
10Many Sunnis feel they have been sidelined from power-sharing by the Shi'ite Muslim-led Baghdad government.
11Paramilitary troops are stationed at the college to provide security for a Shi'ite Muslim commemoration.
12The conflict is widely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Muslim Iran.
13Alamolhoda is the leader of Friday prayers in the eastern Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Mashhad.
14Jan 17 - A teenager blows himself up in a Shi'ite Muslim prayer hall in Peshawar.
15The statement came at the close of a conference of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim religious leaders today.
16Bulgarian authorities blamed Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim militant group Hezbollah for the attack, an accusation dismissed by Hezbollah.
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