ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Shias protested in Pakistan and Indian-held Kashmir on Sunday to condemn Saudi Arabia's execution of a leading Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, as fury over the killing spread...
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of people joined a Shia-led protest in Islamabad on Friday against the government's decision to join Saudi Arabia's 34-country coalition against extremism, as Riyadh's foreign minister ended a two-day visit to the country...
The protesters presented a memorandum to the Foreign Office spokesman demanding Pakistan to drop out of the alliance, which was announced in December and is seen as the latest sign of a more...
We forgot that their dictators were all Sunni, that they had no regional super-power support – the Saudis could not save Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, but Iran was not going to allow its only Arab ally, Alawite-Shia-led Syria, to fall...
When Shia villages like Zahra and Nubl, both defended by government militiamen, were besieged by Al Nusra for three-and-a-half years, their “liberation” was scarcely mentioned...
NAJAF: Every chapter of Iraq's modern history can be seen in this great, sprawling city of the dead, its mausoleums stretching across the horizon from one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines...
The roughly 10-square-kilometre graveyard radiates out from the tomb of Imam Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) and Shia Islam's most sacred martyr...
At least 20 people were killed in an hours-long suicide bomb and gun attack on a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday, an official said...
Mir Hussain Nasiri, a member of Afghanistan's Shia clerical council, confirmed that the cleric who was performing the prayers was killed, but did not give his name...
QUETTA: Four members of the Shia Hazara community, among them a 12-year-old boy, were killed and two others injured in an attack in Kuchlak, a town some 30km northwest of here, on Sunday...
KABUL: A suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group on a Shia mosque in Kabul killed 20 people and wounded scores more on Friday, officials said...
“Two ‘inghimasi’ of IS carried out an attack on a Husseiniya [a Shia place of worship] in the Khair Khana sector of the Afghan city of Kabul,” Amaq said, using the terms for suicide bombers who set off explosive vests as a last resort against gunfire... ...
The massacre at a Kabul mosque last week highlighted the vulnerability of the country's Shia minority, increasingly the target of the militant Islamic State (IS) group that is trying to stir up sectarian violence...
Victims of last Friday's suicide blast inside the Imam Zaman prayer hall told AFP they saw the bomber but no sign of security checks, despite the government's promise to beef up protection of Shia mosques...
QUETTA: Five people, among them three members of the Shia Hazara community, were killed and another was injured when their vehicle came under fire on Kasi Road here on Monday...
Hazaras are frequently targeted by violent extremists in both Pakistan and Afghanistan...
A suicide bomber posing as a shepherd blew himself up near a Shia mosque in Kabul on Friday killing at least six people, police said, as Muslims prepare to observe the holy month of MuharramThe attack in the north of the Afghan capital happened as worshipers were gathered inside Hussainia mosque, one of the biggest Shia centers in the city, for Friday prayers...
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but fighters belonging to...
A movement for the safe recovery of missing Shia persons was announced on Friday in Karachi, with leaders and members of the Shia community presenting themselves for voluntary arrest to force the government to take action on the issue...
The 'Fill the Jail Movement' has been initiated in protest against the forced disappearances of 150 Shia persons, community leaders said...
SOCIAL Media is abuzz with criticism of a column in the Haj application form that seeks the identity of Shia Muslims...
While the Saudi government has reportedly denied that it had asked for this identity verification, the government of Pakistan says this column has existed in the form for the past 20 years...
BAGHDAD: A column of 3,000 Shia militia fighters arrived at a military base near Ramadi on Monday as Baghdad moved to retake the western Iraqi city that has fallen to Islamic State militants in the biggest defeat for the government since mid-2014...
Setting the stage for renewed fighting over the city, Islamic State (IS) militants advanced in armoured vehicles from Ramadi towards the base where the Shia paramilitaries were massing for...
Maulana Domki, who is also the central deputy political secretary of the Majlis-i-Wahdatul Muslimeen, said the government and law enforcement agencies had assured them that the entire group involved in the Shikarpur mosque blast would be busted but only four militants were apprehended while the others were yet to be detained...
He called upon Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and the law enforcement agencies to immediately arrest militants...
BAGHDAD: Shia militias converged on Ramadi on Monday to try to recapture the capital of Iraq’s largest province from militants who dealt the government a stinging blow by overrunning the city in a deadly three-day blitz...
Prime Minister Haider al Abadi had been reluctant to deploy Shia militias to Anbar province for fear of alienating its overwhelmingly Sunni Arab population...