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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …

Afghanistan Attack Taliban Killed Sunni Wounded Shiites

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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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3 years, 7 months ago

Death toll soars to 50 in school bombing in Afghan capital

India TV News

The death toll in a horrific bombing at a girls' school in the Afghan capital has soared to 50, many of them pupils between 11 and 15 years old, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. Soon after the bombing, angry crowds attacked ambulances and even beat health workers as they tried to evacuate the wounded, Health Ministry spokesman Ghulam Dastigar Nazari …

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Death toll soars to 50 in school bombing in Afghan capital

The Hindu

The death toll in a horrific bombing at a girls’ school in the Afghan capital has soared to 50, many of them pupils between 11 and 15 years old, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. Soon after the bombing, angry crowds attacked ambulances and even beat health workers as they tried to evacuate the wounded, Health Ministry spokesman Ghulam Dastigar Nazari …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Pakistani Hazara Shiites refuse to bury dead from Balochistan mine attack; protest 'ethnic cleansing'

Firstpost

Hundreds of mourners in Pakistan protested Wednesday for a fourth day alongside the bodies of miners killed in a brutal attack claimed by the Islamic State group, as officials urged them to bury their dead. Up to 2,500 people from the minority Shiite Hazara community have since Sunday blocked a road on the outskirts of Quetta, capital of oil and …

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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?

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

Suicide bomber kills at least 55 at Afghanistan mosque

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

Death toll soars to 50 in school bombing in Afghan capital

Death toll soars to 50 in school bombing in Afghan capital

Pakistani Hazara Shiites refuse to bury dead from Balochistan mine attack; protest 'ethnic cleansing'