BAGHDAD — Iraq announced on Monday that a high-level security officer during the rule of Saddam Hussein has been hanged for his involvement in the 1980 killing of a prominent Shiite cleric.
The Islamic State group suggested it viewed the PakistaniShiites as legitimate targets, calling them a “human reservoir” that provided recruits to Shiite militias fighting the Islamic State in Syria.
The IS group suggested it viewed the PakistaniShiites as legitimate targets, calling them a “human reservoir” that provided recruits to Shiite militias fighting IS in Syria.
Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing 31 people and wounding at least 169 others. It was a rare attack in the capital of Pakistan as its Western-allied ....
People mourn next the coffin of their relatives, who were killed in Friday's suicide bombing inside a Shiite mosque, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026 ....
A Pakistani official says the death toll from a massive bombing that tore through a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad, during Friday prayers has risen to 24. Nearly a hundred people were also injured in the ... .