Tag: Shia

Bomb attacks against pilgrims in central Iraq killed at least 18 people and wounded 48 on Monday, a day before the peak of the...

Bloodshed in Moharram The killing of two young volunteers looking after a Shia camp in Karachi on the first of Moharram indicates a lack of...

It wasn’t quite the Battle of the Camel, but the pitched battle at Karachi’s Numaish Chowrangi on Sunday was seemingly from the same trend:...

Investigators were taken aback on finding out that a suspected suicide bomber who wanted to blow himself up in a Shia Imambargah in Quetta...

Pakistani police on Wednesday said they had launched a crackdown on Sunni militants, detaining scores of suspects after being criticised for inaction over increased...

At least 29 people were killed and another seven injured when unidentified armed men opened fire on Shia pilgrims travelling to Iran on Tuesday....

Gunmen killed 22 Shia Muslim pilgrims on their way to Syria as they were passing through a predominantly Sunni Iraqi province from the shrine...

Bahraini police clashed with Shia marchers in a religious festival late on Sunday, less than a week after the Gulf kingdom repealed an emergency...

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it would ban all protests and marches after minority Shi'ites staged small protests in the oil-producing eastern province. Security forces would use all measures to prevent any attempt to disrupt public order, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by state television. The ban follows a series of protests by Saudi Shi'ites in the kingdom's east in the past weeks mainly to demand the release of prisoners they say are long held without

MANAMA - Two protesters died in clashes with Bahraini police, sparking angry calls from young cyber-activists for regime change and a walkout on Tuesday of Bahrain's main Shia opposition bloc in parliament. The Islamic National Accord Association which has 18 seats in the 40-member house has suspended its membership in the parliament, said a member, MP Khalil al-Marzooq.
The decision was taken because of "the deterioration in security and the negative and brutal way in which (the

SAMARRA - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bus filled with Shiite pilgrims at a checkpoint outside the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday, killing at least 27 people, police sources said. "The suicide bomber quickly ran into the bus when it stopped at a checkpoint several kilometres (miles) outside Samarra, and detonated his vest inside the vehicle," the police official said.
"About 27 people were killed and about 20 were wounded," he said, giving a toll confirmed by

KARBALA - Three car bombs ripped through crowds near Iraq's shrine city of Karbala on Monday, killing 12 people and wounding dozens in fresh attacks on pilgrims arriving for religious rituals. "There were three car bomb explosions, two at 8:30am (05:30 GMT) and another 30 minutes later," said Nusayef Jassem, the provincial vice chief.
"Twelve people were killed and 150 wounded in the attacks," he said. Dr Laith Sharifi, an official of the provincial health department, said

KARACHI - The MQM on Sunday condemned attempts to ignite sectarian violence in the city by killing its party activists belonging to the Shia community.
"There is a conspiracy being hatched to create a sectarian strife in the city by killing MQM workers belonging to the Shia community," said MQM Rabita Committee member Wasay Jalil at a press conference at the Khursheed Begum Memorial Hall. Other Rabita Committee members including Kunwar Khalid Yunus, Gulfaraz Khattak, Ashfaq

BAGHDAD: Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate said on Friday it was behind car bombings against Shiites in Baghdad this week that killed 64 people, saying they were revenge for "insults" and threatening more attacks.
The claim drew a strong reaction from the representative of Iraq's most respected Shiite cleric, saying it aimed to drag the country into new sectarian conflict.
In a statement on the Al-Hanein jihadi website, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) said Tuesday's attacks were