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Gunmen kill 9 Shia Muslim miners in Afghanistan's Baghlan
Jan 06, 2017 17:40Armed men have gunned down nine Shia miners in Afghanistan's northern province of Baghlan.
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Prominent Bahraini rights activist released pending trial
Dec 28, 2016 14:37Nabeel Rajab, the prominent Bahraini human rights campaigner, who was in custody for months, has been released pending his trial.
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Bahrain regime grills prominent activist over criticizing Wahhabism
Dec 23, 2016 06:02Bahraini regime authorities have put imprisoned prominent Bahraini human rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab through the mill over criticizing oil-rich Persian Gulf monarchies for spreading "extremism" in an article published in French daily Le Monde.
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Court sentences Bahraini journalist to three months in jail
Nov 30, 2016 16:36A criminal court in Bahrain has sentenced a journalist to three months in prison for a message posted on Twitter deemed insulting to Wahhabi extremism, a dominant faith in Saudi Arabia.
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Leader: Address causes of Hillah terrorist attack, Semnan train crash
Nov 26, 2016 15:04Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei expressed deep grief over the recent tragic incidents in Iran and neighboring Iraq that led to the deaths of scores of Iranian nationals, urging the country's officials to find a basic solution to such happenings.
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Iran condemns terrorist attack in Iraq
Nov 24, 2016 18:35Hours after the incident, Foreign Ministry spokesman strongly condemned the fatal terrorist blast, expressing sympathy with the Iraqi government and nation as well as all the families of the victims.
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Iraq: Car bomb kills over 80 people in Hilla
Nov 24, 2016 14:57A car bomb has reportedly exploded in the suburbs of the city of al-Hilla in Southern Iraq martyring more than 80 people, among them pilgrims.
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Grand Ayatollah Mousavi Ardebili passes away
Nov 23, 2016 14:32A senior religious scholar and Marja (source of emulation), Grand Ayatollah Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, has passed away after suffering cardiac and digestive complications.
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Nigeria officials raze Muslim group’s buildings
Nov 19, 2016 14:49Nigerian authorities have razed buildings belonging to the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) as a government crackdown on the Muslim group gains force.
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US condemns Nigerian army attack on Shia Muslims
Nov 18, 2016 17:31The United States has expressed concern over a recent attack by Nigerian forces on a Muslim procession that led to the martyrdom of scores of people.