Recent Examples on the WebFor example, the president of Lebanon is designated to be Christian, the prime minister Sunni, and the speaker of parliament Shiite.—Maryclare Roche, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2024 Identity seeped into everyday bureaucratic procedures, such as getting a new passport or driver’s license; knowing, for instance, whether the passport administrator at a particular office was Sunni or Shiite helped speed a successful application.—Renad Mansour, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2023 The assaults on shipping have raised the profile of the Houthis, who are members of Islam’s minority Shiite Zaydi sect, which ruled Yemen for 1,000 years until 1962.—Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2024 The group, which espouses a religious ideology inspired by a sect of Shiite Islam, has honed its military capabilities through years of civil war.—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024 In 2014, the Houthis — who espouse a religious ideology inspired by a sect of Shiite Islam — took over the Yemeni capital, Sana.—Shuaib Almosawa, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023 The rebels named themselves after Hussein al-Houthi, a key figure who promoted the Zaydi branch of Shiite Islam, which dominated Yemen for centuries.—Leo Sands, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023 On one side are the Houthis, an insurgent Shiite Islamist movement that grew out of a northwestern Yemeni tribe; on the other side is a regime backed by a coalition of Sunni Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.—Samanth Subramanian, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023 Four days ago, Baghdad deployed thousands of its forces and the militias of the Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to Kirkuk, which is claimed by both the KRG and Baghdad.—Ranj Alaaldin, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2017
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