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Ethnic group in western Asia
The recent surge of anger and violence is rooted less in sudden mass hatred than in a decade of competing governance projects, shifting alliances, and local grievances—especially , its security forces...
is overwhelmingly Twelver Shia—most sources put Shias at roughly 90% of the Muslim population and Sunnis at roughly 5–10%—but that national figure masks stark regional clustering: Sunnis are concentra...
do not speak with one voice on and ; opinions range from pro-Palestinian solidarity to cautious neutrality and even sympathetic ties toward Israel rooted in historical and strategic interactions . whi...
Modern ethnic Turks trace their deep linguistic and cultural roots to Turkic-speaking peoples of Central and East Asia who expanded westward across the Eurasian steppe, while the core genetic and demo...
Multiple genetic studies find that many Jewish men—both Ashkenazi and Sephardi—carry Y‑chromosome haplogroups common in the Near East (notably J1/J2) while Ashkenazim show elevated levels of some Euro...