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Car bomb hits predominantly Shia-Muslim city in Saudi Arabia
Jun 01, 2017 15:31A car bomb has exploded in the predominantly Shia-Muslim city of Qatif in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, with initial reports of casualties.
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Bahrain: New clashes as fate of Ayatollah Shiekh Qassim remains unknown
May 29, 2017 04:16Aal-e Khalifa regime forces have clashed with demonstrators rallying in solidarity with Bahrain's most prominent religious scholar and his slain supporters in several areas across the the Persian Gulf island State.
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Iran Experts Assembly warns Bahraini regime of gathering ‘storm’
May 26, 2017 09:28Iran’s Assembly of Experts has strongly condemned the Bahraini regime’s recent raid on the residence of the spiritual leader of the country.
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Saudi regime sentences 14 young activists to death
May 26, 2017 09:28A Saudi court has given death sentences to over a dozen young Shia Muslim activists from the restive Qatif region, which has been the scene of peaceful protest rallies against the ruling Aal-e Saudi regime in recent years.
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Saudi Arabia defends Bahrain’s deadly crackdown
May 25, 2017 03:49Human rights groups have condemned Bahrain for its deadly crackdown on people in the village of Diraz, but the Saudi regime has come to Manama’s defense, saying the Bahraini kingdom is "an integral part" of Saudi Arabia's security.
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UN experts slam Riyadh for erasing 'cultural heritage' in Shia town
May 24, 2017 15:29United Nations experts have slammed the regime in Riyadh over razing an old part of a Shia Muslim-majority town in eastern Saudi Arabia, saying the move has erased cultural heritage and violated human rights.
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Saudi regime offensive on Shia Muslim town enters 2nd week
May 18, 2017 08:57Saudi regime forces have launched a fresh wave of shelling attacks against a besieged town in Saudi Arabia’s Shia Muslim-populated Eastern Province, as a fierce crackdown on protesters there enters its second week.
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Saudi Shia-Muslim town under 'siege' for sixth day
May 15, 2017 11:56A town has entered the sixth day under "siege" from the Aal-e Saud’s security services, with several people reportedly killed in clashes between police and protesters.
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Shaikh Kolayni, the Doyen of Imami Scholars
May 09, 2017 09:57The 19th of the Iranian month of Ordibehesht is marked every year in the Islamic Republic of Iran as National Day for the great Imami scholar Abu Ja'far Mohammad bin Ya’qub bin Ishaq al-Kolayni ar-Razi, who was born in the village of Kolayn near the ancient city of Rayy, presently a suburb of modern day Tehran.
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Ayatollah Qassim’s trial persecution of Bahraini Shia Muslims: Sheikh Salman
May 05, 2017 15:56Secretary General of Bahrain’s al-Wefaq National Islamic Society Sheikh Ali Salman says the prosecution Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim amounts to persecution and targeting of the entire Shia-Muslim community by the Aal-e Khalifa minority regime in Bahrain.