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

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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Islamic State Claims Two Bomb Blasts That Killed At Least 9 on Minibuses in Afghan City
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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Suicide bomber kills at least 55 at Afghanistan mosque
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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