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Shia cleric Sayyid Alim Musawi of Imambargah Safdar Hussain, was gunned down by unknown attackers in Dhaki Munawar Shah area on Monday. Sources said that the Shia cleric was on his way to the local mosque for evening prayer when he was targeted by unknown assailants riding on bikes. Sayyid …

At least six people were killed on Saturday when three mortar bombs hit a Shiite Muslim village near the Iraqi city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) Northeast of Baghdad, police said.  A woman and a child were among the victims, five of whom belonged to the same family, the …

GAZA STRIP (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot dead one Palestinian and injured another on Friday during a protest east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. Spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qidra, said that 20-year-old Bilal Samer Oweidah died after being shot dead in the chest by …

An official of the Israeli regime has proclaimed that Tel Aviv is contemplating the replacement of the al-Aqsa Mosque in al-Quds (Jerusalem) with a temple. The Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction Uri Ariel called on Friday for the construction of what he claimed as “the Third Temple” to replace …

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 …