All Stories: Shia

KANO: At least 120 people were killed and 270 others wounded on Friday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up and gunmen opened fire during weekly prayers at the mosque of one of Nigeria's top Islamic leaders.

SARGODHA: Firing between two rival groups left two people dead as Ashura procession was on its way in Sargodha on Tuesday, ARY News reported.

QUETTA: While taking notice of the barbaric killing of eight Hazara people in Quetta, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday ordered the interior secretary to get the culprits arrested involved in the slayings, ARY News reported.

BEIRUT: Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Thursday that they said shows British journalist John Cantlie in captivity saying he will soon reveal "facts" about the group to counter its portrayal in Western media.

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON: The United States carried out air strikes on Saturday against Islamic State fighters near the besieged Shi'ite town of Amerli in northern Iraq and airdropped humanitarian aid to civilians trapped there, the Pentagon said.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama could ask the U.S. Congress in coming weeks to approve new funds for airstrikes against Islamic State targets, according to a congressional aide, following the militants' beheading of an American journalist and activities in Iraq.

BAGHDAD: Iraqi and Kurdish forces recaptured Iraq's biggest dam from Islamist militants with the help of U.S. air strikes to secure a vital strategic objective in fighting that threatens to break up the country, Kurdish and U.S. officials said on Monday.

ISLAMABAD: Majlis-e-Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen (MWM) leader Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri on Sunday said that if Dr.Tahir-ul-Qadri’s demands are not fulfilled within the 48 hour ultimatum, his party along with Qadri’s other allies will stage sit-ins across the country, ARY News reported.

BAGHDAD: Nuri al-Maliki finally bowed to pressure within Iraq and beyond on Thursday and stepped down as prime minister, paving the way for a new coalition that world and regional powers hope can quash a Sunni Islamist insurgency that threatens Baghdad.

BAGHDAD: Iraq's new prime minister-designate won swift endorsements from uneasy mutual allies the United States and Iran on Tuesday as he called on political leaders to end crippling feuds that have let jihadists seize a third of the country.

KARACHI: Former Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) senator Faisal Raza Abidi on Thursday claimed that the current Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) government wasted twelve months by not starting a decisive operation against Pakistan's Taliban rebels in North Waziristan, ARY News reported.

BAGHDAD: Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric urged political leaders on Friday to refrain from clinging to their posts - an apparent reference to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has defied demands that he step aside.

"Our Brothers in the Islamic State ... announcing an inclusive caliphate is a good job," said Sudan's Al-Attasam belKetab wa al-Sunna, which broke from...

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