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Iraq suicide bom kills 20 at pilgrimage climax

A suicide bomber killed 20 people in an apparent sectarian attack in south Iraq Saturday casting a pall over the ...

Amnesty Int`l urges RI to protect Shiite minority

Amnesty International has urged the Indonesian government to provide protection for hundreds of Shiites who have been ...

Attacks kill six in Iraq, wound 15 Afghan pilgrims

Attacks across Iraq on Monday killed six people and wounded dozens of others, including 15 Afghan pilgrims visiting ...

Iraq marks first army day since US pullout

Iraq's armed forces were to mark their 91st anniversary with a huge parade on Friday, weeks after US troops completed ...

Conflict in Sampang not between Sunnis and Shiites

The chief of the Nahdlatul Ulama Islamic organization, Said Aqil Siradj, said the conflict in Sampang on the island of ...

three named suspects over shiite buildings torching

Sampang police have named three people as the main suspects over last Thursday`s (Dec 29) torching of a number of ...

Sampang Shiite leader demands immediate arrest of arsonists

The leader of Sampang`s Shiite community, Ustat Tajul Muluk, came to the district`s police station on Friday to ...

NU deplores burning of Shiite school in Sampang

The executive board of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) has deplored the burning of a Shiite boarding school in Sampang on the ...

Mobs besiege Shiite leader`s residence in Sampang

Mobs wielding sharp weapons besieged the house of a local Shiite leader in Sampang on Madura island, East Java, ...

Blast rocks south Lebanon restaurant

An explosion tore through a restaurant in the southern Lebanese town of Tyre at dawn Wednesday, just a few metres from ...

Iraqi Al Qaeda group says behind Baghdad bombings

Al Qaeda`s affiliate in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a slew of bombings that killed at least 71 people in ...

Iraq crisis stirs protests in Sunni strongholds

Several thousand Iraqis in Sunni Muslim strongholds protested on Friday against Shi`ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, ...

New attacks raise Iraq death toll to 67: officials

Two more attacks in Baghdad and a shooting at an army checkpoint in the main northern city of Mosul raised the death ...

Biden urges Iraq PM to resolve crisis

US Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday urged Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to work with other parties to resolve a ...

Syria to let in Arab monitors as deaths mount

Syria agreed on Monday to let Arab states monitor its compliance with an Arab League peace agreement aimed at stopping ...