Gholamreza Gholizadeh, a lay Shia eulogist, referred to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as “bastards” and “consumers of illegitimately acquired foo ...

Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, it has sought to expand its influence by creating a “Shia crescent” that includes Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen. However, Iran’s ...

First, it is the biggest country on the western side of the Shia Crescent of Power ... weapons delivery into southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights area of Syria. This would have dramatically ...

The two countries signed 20-year cooperation pact, but despite anti-US stance there are limits to their partnership.

The conflict in Syria began to heat up as ... what is called the “Shia Crescent,” started with weakening Hizbullah in Lebanon in order to enforce a ceasefire deal that secured a halt to ...

From this brief mandate, Syria inherited a parliamentary system modeled after France’s, but political parties were little ...

For a long, Jordanian King Abdullah had warned against the spectre of a rising “Shia Crescent” (assertion of Shiite rule in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon). He therefore would be presumably ...

Israel is the clear winner. It has snapped the Shia crescent that ran from Syria through Iraq and Lebanon. Israel has taken over the Golan Heights. It is building a buffer against a nuclear Iran.