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Thousands of anti-regime protesters have held a demonstration in northeastern Bahrain, calling for the democratization of the Persian Gulf country. The pro-democracy demonstration, dubbed People’s Cause, was held in the village of Sitra on Friday. The protest had been organized by the Bahraini opposition bloc al-Wefaq National Islamic Society. The ...

A senior member of the Saudi royal family attacked the United States on Friday over its policy on Syria, and called for a United Nations resolution to pull “Iraqi and Lebanese Shi’ite militia” out of the war-torn Middle bEastern country. Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former intelligence chief and an outspoken ...

  Iraqi armed forces have managed to kill scores of al-Qaeda-affiliated Takfiri militants in the country’s Anbar Province as the army continues its fight against terrorists. According to the Iraqi Defense Ministry, the army forces carried out airstrikes on the Takfiri militants’ bases in the western province of Anbar, killing ...

QUETTA: The victims of the Mastung suicide attack were laid to rest in two graveyards of the city on Friday. 22 victims belonging to the Hazara Shia community were laid to rest at the Bahisht-e-Zainab graveyard while four were buried at the Hazara Town graveyard. Grief-stricken mourners of the Hazara ...

The growing anti-Shia movement in Sunni-majority Indonesia is the result of the geopolitical situation in the Middle East. Islamic radicalism expert Noorhaidi Hasan of the State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta expressed confidence that the dynamics of Islam in Indonesia had always been linked to the various political situations ...

QUETTA: Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslmeen and families of martyrs have announced to end the sit-in being staged in Quetta and to bury the remains of martyrs on Friday, following the assurances of action from Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan,  The Interior and Information Ministers flew in to Quetta and assuring the protesters ...

A bomb ripped through a bus full of Shi’ite pilgrims in western Pakistan and killed at least 22 people on Tuesday, police said, extending a spate of sectarian attacks that have shaken the South Asian nation. The bomb exploded near a bus carrying pilgrims returning from neighbouring Iran to their home city of Quetta ...

At the 27th conference for Islamic unity, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned about the dangers of takfiri groups and said that the countries that support them will eventually face trouble with them as well. “Today, the most important issue in the Muslim world is unity,” said Ayatollah Khamenei ...