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Scores of Yazidi Women Entrapped by ISIS in Fallujah

  Scores of Kurdish Yazidi women and children are now in Fallujah under ISIS captivity, and they need protection as the Fallujah operation continues, warns a Kurdish official. Hussein Kuro, Head of the Directorate of Yazidi Abductees Affairs in Dohuk province of the Kurdistan Region, said that 150 to 200 …

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Bahrainis rally to demand release of Sheikh Ali Salman

Demonstrators in Bahrain have taken to the streets to express solidarity with political prisoners and jailed activists, in particular prominent opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman. In Abu Saiba, the protesters demanded the release of the 49-year-old secretary of the main opposition al-Wefaq and other political prisoners.

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Fatima Bhutto: Shia Muslims have overtaken Christians, Hindus as targets

Pakistan is a country of ghosts. They are everywhere, the victims and the perpetrators both. On Wednesday morning, six gunmen wearing police uniforms stopped an Al Azhar Garden bus carrying 60 Ismaili Muslims in Karachi. The bus picked up Ismailies (Shia Muslims) from the housing society dedicated to their community …

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Canadian ambassador in Iraq: Imam Ali holy shrine is a place widely respected

Bruno Sakumani, the Canadian Ambassador in Iraq and Jordan, and his accompanying delegation visited the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali (PBUH) as the Deputy Secretary-General welcomed them. He saw the historical landmarks in the Shrine. The officials of the Internal Relations Department that belongs to the Public Relations Department accompanied …

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