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Soldiers lynched an innocent bystander in the Central African Republic yesterday, beating the man to death before scores of witnesses only moments after the new president had voiced “pride” in their professionalism. The brazen murder, carried out with the utmost brutality, was another sign of the nightmarish disintegration of this ...

Houthi fighters have overrun strongholds of a rival pro-Salafi tribal group in fighting that has killed at least 40 people in northern Yemen in the last two days, tribal sources said on Sunday. The fighting compounds the challenges faced by U.S.-allied Yemen, which is struggling to stabilise a country that ...

A bomb attack has killed at least nine Shia Muslims and injured 30 others in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar, security sources say. Local security officials said the blast took place on Tuesday evening near a mosque and a hotel in a Shia-dominated neighborhood of Peshawar – the capital of ...

More than 2,300 militants were killed in infightings among rival militant groups in Syria in January, as tensions between various militant groups escalate, a monitoring group says. According to the report released by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 1700 militants were killed in infightings among the al-Qaeda-affiliated ...

MOMBASA, Kenya – Gunfire erupted in and around a mosque in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Sunday following a raid by armed police who had received a tip-off that Muslim youths were being radicalised and trained for militant attacks. The raid sparked violent protests inside the Masjid Mussa ...

Iraqi security sources reported that the Iraqi army killed 40 militants who belong to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the city of Fallujah. The Special Iraqi Troops killed the militants and burnt their cars, according to the sources. The Iraqi army regained control on the area ...

Harvard Law School, one of the most prestigious institutions of its kind in the world, has posted a verse of the Holy Quraan at the entrance of its faculty library, describing the verse as one of the greatest expressions of justice in history. Verse 135 of Surah Al Nisa (The ...

Notorious takfiri terrorists Sipah-e-Sahaba killed a Shia youth who was a custodian of a Shia Mosque in Karachi on Thursday. Sources reported that Akbar Hussain son of Asghar Hussain was ambushed in Bilal Colony of North Karachi.   He was a custodian of an Shia Mosque in another locality of ...

Iraqi forces have wrested back control of key areas west of Baghdad that have been out of government hands for weeks amid a deadly standoff between militants and security forces. The battles in Anbar province, a mostly-Sunni desert region that shares a border with Syria, and a protracted surge in ...

A report forecasting Israel’s strategic future looks positively at Sunni-Shia conflict in the Middle East though it fears instability along Israeli borders. Israeli Major General Amos Yadlin concludes the “Strategic Survey for Israel 2013-2014” by stating: “In 2013, Israel’s national security balance sheet was largely positive. In contrast, in the ...