Scores killed and wounded by Afghan mosque blast during Friday prayers

October 8, 2021 Article

At least 100 people have been killed or wounded in an explosion targeting Shiite Muslims at a mosque in northern Afghanistan, according to a Taliban police official. Dost Mohammad Obaida said the “majority of them have been killed”. The blast occurred during the Friday prayer service at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in Kunduz province, when […]

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Islamic authorities in Malaysian state denounce Shi’ites in sermon

September 7, 2019 Article

Religious authorities in a Malaysian state denounced Shi’ite Islam on Friday and asked mosques to call in sermons on their congregations to be vigilant over the spread [...]

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Saudi Arabia to admit Iranian diplomat

August 6, 2018 Article

Saudi Arabia has agreed to admit an Iranian diplomat to head an office representing Iranian interests in the kingdom, the official Iranian news agency IRNA [...]

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World’s largest cemetery grows bigger as Shi’ite militias bury their dead

August 23, 2016 Article

A man prays inside the shrine of Imam Mahdi at the Wadi al-Salam cemetery, Arabic for "Peace Valley", in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq August 1, 2016. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

The world’s largest cemetery, in Iraq’s Shi’ite holy city of Najaf, is expanding at double its usual rate as the nation’s death rate increased with [...]

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Scores killed and wounded by Afghan mosque blast during Friday prayers

Islamic authorities in Malaysian state denounce Shi’ites in sermon

Saudi Arabia to admit Iranian diplomat

World’s largest cemetery grows bigger as Shi’ite militias bury their dead

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