Shiite News

The violence erupted on Thursday when a convoy of passenger coaches carrying Shiite Muslims was ambushed in the Parachinar area, leading to a heavy casualty.  

The Islamic State group said it carried out a gun and bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in Kabul on Friday that killed at least 39 people, including children.

Qatif has seen a string of assaults on security forces in recent weeks.

 A female imam from the United States, Ani Zonneveld, called for prayer as the faithful kneeled behind her in rows, all turned in the direction of Mecca.

Bahrain's top court on Monday reduced the jail sentence of Shiite opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman, who has been in prison since 2014, a judicial source said. 

Amid fierce clashes that raged for the second day, the Islamic State (ISIS) seized more territory from Syrian government forces near the ancient city of Palmyra on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said today.

A suicide bomber attacked a Shiite-majority area of north Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than two dozen, security and medical officials said.

At least 12 rebels and three pro-government fighters were killed in fierce battles in southwestern Yemen today, military sources said.

The war has left a security vacuum throughout parts of the country.

A suicide bombing against a security check point in northern Baghdad has killed at least 10 people, Iraqi officials said on Sunday.

A Bahraini cleric will go on trial next month on charges of collecting funds illegally and money laundering, the public prosecutor said on Saturday.

The shooting came despite the deployment of armoured vehicles at checkpoints in the area this week, according to a resident.  

A suicide car bombing today targetted an army checkpoint in Baghdad killing at least 11 persons.

The number of religious television broadcasters across the Middle East has risen by 50 percent, reflecting a rise in sectarianism in the region, according to a study published Thursday

The influential speaker of Lebanon`s Parliament has cast doubt on whether the reconciliation of the country`s rival Christian leaders will help the country install a new president after nearly two years with the post empty.

At least 81 civilians were killed in Yemen last month despite a short-lived and repeatedly violated ceasefire, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday morning as Shiite Muslim Iran reacted with fury to Saudi Arabia`s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric.

The death toll in a suicide bombing on a Shia Muslim procession near the northern Nigerian city of Kano has risen to 22 after one more person was confirmed dead, one of the organisers said Saturday.