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Lebanon’s Shiite Muslims pay high price in war between Israel and Hezbollah

BEIRUT — The Lebanese civilians most devastated by the Israel- Hezbollah war are Shiite Muslims, and many of them believe they are being unfairly punished because they share a religious identity with Hezbollah militants and often live in the same areas. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Israel insists its war is with …

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At least 38 killed as gunmen open fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan

Deccan Chronicle

Pakistan:Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan's restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region's deadliest such attacks in recent years, police said. The attack happened in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where sectarian clashes between majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites …

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1 month ago

At least 42 killed as gunmen open fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan

LA Times

An injured victim, right, of gunmen that fired on a passenger vehicle is treated at a hospital in Parachinar, in Kurram district of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Thursday. Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 42 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region’s …

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1 month ago

At least 42 killed as gunmen open fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan

CNN

Peshawar, Pakistan AP — Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 42 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in one of the region’s deadliest such attacks in recent years, police said. The attack happened in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where sectarian clashes between majority Sunni …

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1 month ago

Nearly 50 killed in deadly gun attack on vehicles carrying Shiites in Pakistan

India Today

Heavily-armed militants on Thursday ambushed dozens of vehicles carrying passengers in Pakistan's restive northwest, killing around 50 people, mostly Shias, in one of the worst attacks in the region in recent years. The militants attacked the convoy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Kurram district, bordering Afghanistan, which has witnessed deadly sectarian clashes between Shia and Sunni religious groups as well as militant …

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2 months ago

With Hezbollah weakened by Israel, its political opponents in Lebanon see an opportunity

LA Times

Under heavy attack from Israel, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has been seriously weakened militarily in recent weeks, with many of its top leaders killed, and at least some of its arsenal destroyed. U.S. officials and many Lebanese politicians would like to see a full implementation of United Nations resolution 1701, a 2006 agreement under which Hezbollah fighters would withdraw …

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5 months ago

Oman mosque attack: Islamic State claims responsibility, but why does the group attack mosques?

Firstpost

The Islamic State’s history of targeting Shi’ite mosques is attributed largely to its stringent Sunni ideology, which labels Shi’ites as heretical. Image used for representational purpose/Reuters Terrorist group Islamic State confirmed its responsibility for the attack on Tuesday’s attack on Shi’ite mosque in Oman. This theological schism has fueled numerous attacks, particularly during significant Shi’ite observances such as the Muharram …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Is a US war in the Middle East coming? No, because it's already here

Salon

In mid-June, the Associated Press announced that the U.S. Navy had been engaged in the most intense naval combat since the end of World War II, which surely would come as a surprise to most Americans. Waving Yemeni and Palestinian flags, they pledged support against “the armies of tyranny,” shouting, “We closed Bab el-Mandeb, O Zionist, do not approach!” and …

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1 year, 1 month ago

How Hezbollah will decide whether Lebanon enters the war

Firstpost

Reflecting the paradoxes of the Lebanese political system, the power to decide whether the country will go to war does not rest within the government but within Hezbollah and by extension Iran Lebanon, which is teetering on the edge of economic and political collapse, risks becoming entangled in thIsrael-Hamas war: How Hezbollah alone will decide whether Lebanon enters the ware …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad

Associated Press

BAGHDAD — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein in front of his salon in Baghdad’s Firdos Square. “The statue showed the face of a man everyone …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Bahrain’s Shiites hope pope raises human rights during visit

Associated Press

BEIRUT — Pope Francis is making the first-ever papal trip to Bahrain this week, sparking calls from the country’s majority Shiite opposition and human rights activists for the pontiff to raise human rights concerns in the small island nation. “The watchwords of this visit are coexistence and dialogue and the Bahraini government suppresses civil and political freedoms, without which coexistence …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Clashes erupt after Iraqi Shiite cleric resigns, 15 dead

Associated Press

BAGHDAD — An influential Shiite cleric announced Monday that he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking clashes with security forces. During Monday’s clashes, Saraya Salam, a militia aligned with al-Sadr gathered in the capital’s Tahrir Square to “protect” protesters, one of its commanders said. Iraq’s military swiftly called …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Iraqi cleric’s loyalists heed his call to abandon protests after clashes kill 30

LA Times

Iraqi security forces fire tear gas at the followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr inside the government palace in Baghdad. Following two days of deadly unrest that sparked fears of instability spreading throughout Iraq and even the region, cleric Muqtada Sadr told his supporters to leave the government quarter where they had rallied. A day later, on Tuesday, Sadr’s supporters …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Attack on Rushdie shows divisions among Lebanese Shiites

Associated Press

BEIRUT — The stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has laid bare divisions in Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim community, pitting a few denouncing the violence against fervent followers of the Iran-backed Shiite militant Hezbollah group who have praised the attack. The religious edict, or fatwa, urging Muslims to kill Rushdie was issued in 1989 by Iran’s then-spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Islamic State Claims Two Bomb Blasts That Killed At Least 9 on Minibuses in Afghan City

News 18

The Islamic State group claimed two bomb blasts aboard minibuses that killed at least nine people Thursday in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif, a week after a deadly explosion at a Shiite mosque in the northern city. The number of violent public attacks across Afghanistan has fallen since the Taliban returned to power last August, but the Sunni Islamic State group has continued …

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2 years, 8 months ago

1 of the multiple blasts in Afghanistan hit worshippers in a mosque

NPR

1 of the multiple blasts in Afghanistan hit worshippers in a mosque Bomb attacks in Afghanistan have shattered a relative lull in violence that had held since the Taliban seized power eight months ago. It shatters a relative lull in violence that had held since the Taliban seized power eight months ago. HADID: Speaking to NPR's Kabul producer Fazelminallah Qazizai, …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Iran suspends talks with Saudi Arabia after mass execution of 81 people

ABC

Iran has reportedly decided to temporarily suspend its secret Baghdad-brokered talks aimed at defusing years-long tensions with Saudi Arabia, after the oil-rich kingdom carried out its largest known mass execution in its modern history. Key points: Saudi Arabia has denied accusations of human rights abuses after the mass-execution of 81 people Sporadic protests have erupted among Shiites in the nearby …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest known mass execution in it's modern history

Firstpost

The state-run Saudi Press Agency announced Saturday’s executions, saying they included those ‘convicted of various crimes, including the murdering of innocent men, women and children’ Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Saudi Arabia on 12 March, 2022, executed 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest mass execution

Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history. The number of death penalty cases being carried out in Saudi Arabia had dropped during the coronavirus pandemic, though the kingdom continued to …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Despite mistrust, Afghan Shiites seek Taliban protection

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Outside a Shiite shrine in Kabul, four armed Taliban fighters stood guard on a recent Friday as worshippers filed in for weekly prayers. “We can’t even tell if they are Taliban or Daesh,” he said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. “In comparison to their previous rule, the Taliban are a little better,” said …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Taliban warns US not to 'destabilise' regime in face-to-face talks

India Today

The Taliban warned the United States not to "destabilise" the regime on Saturday during their first face-to-face talks since the US withdrawal, as a deadly sectarian bombing raised further questions about their grip on power. As mourners in northern Afghanistan buried their dead from an attack on a Shiite mosque that killed 62, a Taliban delegation told US officials in …

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3 years, 2 months ago

IS bomber kills 46 inside Afghan mosque, challenges Taliban

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — An Islamic State suicide bomber struck at a mosque packed with Shiite Muslim worshippers in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens in the latest security challenge to the Taliban as they transition from insurgency to governance. It was the latest in a series of IS bombings and shootings that have targeted …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Suicide bomber kills at least 55 at Afghanistan mosque

The Hindu

A suicide bomb attack on worshippers at a Shiite mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz killed at least 55 people Friday, in the bloodiest assault since U.S. forces left the country. In a statement released on its Telegram channels, the Islamic State said that an IS suicide bomber "detonated an explosive vest amid a crowd" of Shiite worshippers who …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Islamic State claims Afghanistan's Kunduz mosque attack, says it targeted Shiites

India TV News

The militant Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shiite Muslim mosque in northern Afghanistan that killed at least 46 people and wounded dozens. The attack was the latest in a series of IS bombings and shootings that have targeted Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers, as well as religious institutions and members of the country’s minority …

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Lebanon’s Shiite Muslims pay high price in war between Israel and Hezbollah

At least 38 killed as gunmen open fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan

At least 42 killed as gunmen open fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan

At least 42 killed as gunmen open fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan

Nearly 50 killed in deadly gun attack on vehicles carrying Shiites in Pakistan

With Hezbollah weakened by Israel, its political opponents in Lebanon see an opportunity

Oman mosque attack: Islamic State claims responsibility, but why does the group attack mosques?

Is a US war in the Middle East coming? No, because it's already here

How Hezbollah will decide whether Lebanon enters the war

Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad

Bahrain’s Shiites hope pope raises human rights during visit

Clashes erupt after Iraqi Shiite cleric resigns, 15 dead

Iraqi cleric’s loyalists heed his call to abandon protests after clashes kill 30

Attack on Rushdie shows divisions among Lebanese Shiites

Islamic State Claims Two Bomb Blasts That Killed At Least 9 on Minibuses in Afghan City

1 of the multiple blasts in Afghanistan hit worshippers in a mosque

Iran suspends talks with Saudi Arabia after mass execution of 81 people

Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest known mass execution in it's modern history

Saudi Arabia puts 81 to death in its largest mass execution

Despite mistrust, Afghan Shiites seek Taliban protection

Taliban warns US not to 'destabilise' regime in face-to-face talks

IS bomber kills 46 inside Afghan mosque, challenges Taliban

Suicide bomber kills at least 55 at Afghanistan mosque

Islamic State claims Afghanistan's Kunduz mosque attack, says it targeted Shiites