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A shooting Sunday at a Shiite Muslim shrine in Iran’s south killed at least one person and wounded eight others, state media reported, revising down a previous toll of four fatalities. The attack comes less than a year after a similar…
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A fire killed four people in the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala Friday as hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims began gathering to mark Ashura, emergency services said. The blaze erupted in an alleyway near the mausoleum of Imam…
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The Daesh group said Friday it was behind a bombing south of the Syrian capital Damascus the day before that killed at least six people and wounded 20. Thursday’s explosion was near the Sayeda Zeinab mausoleum in Damascus, Syria’s most…
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Iran hanged two men in public on Saturday over an October attack on a shrine in the southern city of Shiraz that claimed 13 lives, state media reported. “The death sentences against two perpetrators of the terrorist attack” on the Shah…
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An Iranian court sentenced two people to death over an October attack on a shrine in the southern city of Shiraz that cost over a dozen lives, the judiciary said Saturday. The pair were convicted of assisting in “corruption on earth,…
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Palestinian gunmen opened fire at Jewish worshipers on Thursday at a flashpoint holy site in the occupied West Bank, wounding an Israeli military officer and two civilians, the Israeli army said. The Palestinian official news agency Wafa…
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Palestinians set fire to a West Bank shrine revered by Jews as Israeli forces operated in the occupied territory following a spate of recent Palestinian attacks in Israel, the Israeli military said Sunday. The developments come as…
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Iran on Friday buried a second Shiite cleric killed in a suspected jihadist attack at a revered shrine in the country’s north, state television reported. Sadegh Darai, a middle-ranking cleric, died on Thursday from wounds sustained in…
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At least 12 people died and 13 were injured in a stampede at a religious shrine in the early hours of Saturday in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said. “At least 12 people lost their lives and 13 are injured,” one senior…
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As police protected them, three Jewish men stepped forward, placed their hands out at chest level and began reciting prayers in low tones in the shadow of Jerusalem’s golden Dome of the Rock. Jewish prayers at Jerusalem’s most sensitive…
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