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A suicide bomber and a gunman killed at least 29 people and wounded 63 at a packed Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's main western city of Herat Tuesday, the latest attack to highlight the country's deteriorating security situation.
The death toll of the bombing that rocked the convoy of Shiite evacuees in northern Syria rose to 112, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor group reported on Sunday.
The Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday saw one of its bloodiest days this year with at least 86 people killed in three separate bomb attacks, according to officials.
Up to 17 were killed and 41 were injured Monday in a suicide bomb attack in a village in Iraq' s eastern province of Diyala, a provincial security source told Xinhua.
Syrians in the Shiite Sayyidah Zaynab district south of Damascus expressed deep sorrow over the triple bombings that deprived 70 lives of their fellows and relatives earlier on Sunday.
The Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for three deadly bombings that rocked a Shiite district south of the capital Damascus on Sunday, killing over 76 people.
The escalation of tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran against the backdrop of the Saudi execution of a prominent Saudi Shiite cleric could negatively rebound on the efforts for establishing a peace process in Syria, analysts here said.
Many Syrians took part in sit-ins held Tuesday in several Syrian cities, calling for the break of the siege imposed by the rebels on two Shiite towns in northwestern Syria, a monitor group reported.
At least 300 improvised rockets and mortar shells slammed into predominantly-Shiite towns in northwestern Syria, killing seven civilians, a monitor group reported Tuesday.
It is not yet clear whether a new U.S. plan to send hundreds of troops to Iraq to help defeating the Islamic State (IS) militant group was the right move to give a push to the Iraqi forces on the battleground, but some Iraqis here met President Barack Obama's new strategy with scepticism.
U.S. and Iraqi authorities have exchanged accusations on the fall of the city of Ramadi into the hands of the Islamic State (IS) militants, reflecting the failure of U.S. policy in dealing with global terrorism.
The U.S. military top officer arrived in Baghdad Monday to discuss military cooperation as Iraqi forces freed the town of al-Alam in the Salahudin province from the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Yemeni riot police on Sunday evening fired tear gas to disperse Shiite Houth rebels who blocked a main road to the Sanaa International Airport in an escalation of their standoff with the government, witnesses told Xinhua. About 10 Shiite protesters were injured in the clashes.
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