Yemen’s Houthis lash out after air strike with missile attack
Yemen‘s Houthi movement fired ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia, and the United States said a failed missile attack from Houthi-controlled areas targeted one of its...
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Islamic State claims blasts near Damascus Shi’ite shrine, 20 killed
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi ISLAMIC State claimed responsibility for suicide and car bomb blasts that struck a Damascus suburb on Saturday near Syria’s holiest Shi’ite Muslim shrine, and...
Toll in Islamic State suicide blasts in Syrian capital rise to 60 (Update 3)
More than 60 people, including 25 Shi’ite fighters, have been killed in twin suicide bombings by Islamic State in a heavily guarded pro-government district of...
Iran reacts with fury after Saudis execute Shi’ite cleric
By Sam Wilkin and Angus McDowall Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday as Shi’ite Muslim Iran reacted with fury to...
Eight Pakistani Shi’ites killed in sectarian attack
By Gul Yousafzai Eight Shi’ite members of Pakistan’s ethnic Hazara minority were killed and one wounded on Thursday, when gunmen opened fire on a bus...
At least 30 killed in Shi’ite militia attack on Sunni mosque in Iraq (Update 1)
At least 30 people were killed when a Shi’ite Muslim militia opened fired inside an Iraqi Sunni mosque in the country’s eastern Diyala province on Friday, an Iraqi security...
Assad seeks re-election as Syrian civil war rages
By Dominic Evans Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared on Monday he would seek re-election in June, defying calls from his opponents to step aside and allow...
Clashes erupt as Iraq police move on Sunni protest camp
By Kamal Namaa FIGHTING broke out when Iraqi police moved to dismantle a Sunni Muslim protest camp in the western Anbar province on Monday, leaving...
Hezbollah says commander killed in Beirut, blames Israel
By Laila Bassam and Dominic Evans Lebanon’s Shi’ite militant Hezbollah group said on Wednesday one of its commanders was killed outside his Beirut home in...
Islamist rebels capture Syria’s largest oilfield – activists
By Erika Solomon Islamist rebels led by al Qaeda-linked fighters seized Syria’s largest oilfield on Saturday, cutting off President Bashar al-Assad’s access to almost all...
Two blasts target Iranian embassy in Beirut, kill 23 (updated)
By Laila Bassam and Erika Solomon Two suicide bombings rocked Iran’s embassy compound in Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people including an Iranian...
Hezbollah will stay in Syria as long as needed – Nasrallah
By Dominic Evans Shi’ite militants from Hezbollah will keep fighting in Syria’s civil war alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s forces as long as necessary, the group’s...