Sunnis

The Shia militant group Hezbollah has suggested its fight against Islamic State has given it a common purpose with the West. In an interview with the BBC, Mohammed Fneish, a Lebanese Hezbollah minister, said the Sunni group is bad for Muslims and kills more of them than his party’s original enemy – Israel.

Maliki and Iran’s paramilitary Qods Force operating in Iraq are the causes of much violence across Iraq. The Obama administration has remained silent about Maliki’s atrocities against Iraqi citizens, particularly the Sunni population and other minorities.

Two men were killed in the Shia Muslim region in eastern Saudi Arabia on Monday following protests over the arrest of prominent cleric and anti-government activist Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.