Sunni Muslims
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Freed prisoners of Islamic State tell of beatings and torture
- Middle East
- October 28, 2015
Muhammad Hassan Abdullah al-Jibouri had long ago lost hope that he would ever make it out of Islamic State’s jail alive, and he had not even seen the(...)

Shia mosque bombing in Pakistan kills at least 10
- Middle East
- October 22, 2015, 21:02
A suicide bombing at a Shia Muslim mosque killed at least 10 people in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan on Thursday, officials said, raising fear(...)

Islamic State gunmen reportedly kidnap scores of Christians
- Middle East
- August 7, 2015, 15:26
Gunmen have abducted 230 civilians, including at least 60 Christians, in a central Syrian town hours after it fell to Islamic State, according to the (...)

One American takes the fight to Islamic State
- US
- July 11, 2015, 01:00
The last time Matthew VanDyke saw US journalist James Foley, they were running through war-torn Aleppo in Syria avoiding snipers. Foley became the mo(...)

Kuwait makes arrests over Shia mosque attack
- Middle East
- June 27, 2015, 11:58
Kuwait has arrested several people on suspicion of involvement in the bombing of a Shia Muslim mosque on Friday that killed 27 people, a security sour(...)

Islamic State suicide bomber kills 25 in Kuwait mosque
- Middle East
- June 26, 2015, 13:00
A suicide bomber killed 25 people when he blew himself up inside a packed Shia Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, the interior minis(...)

Yemen: clashes break out near presidential palace
- Middle East
- January 19, 2015, 09:39
The Yemeni army and Houthi fighters waged artillery and gunbattles near the presidential palace in Sanaa on Monday in the most intense clashes since t(...)

Lebanon receives its millionth refugee from Syrian civil war
- Middle East
- April 3, 2014, 13:57
The number of Syrian refugees who have fled to Lebanon officially topped 1 million today, highlighting the growing humanitarian catastrophe cau(...)

Crimeans vote overwhelmingly to join Russia
- Europe
- March 16, 2014, 17:20
Crimeans have voted overwhelmingly to break away from Ukraine and join Russia in a referendum today that has alarmed the former Soviet republic(...)

Twenty people killed by car bomb in south Beirut
- Middle East
- August 15, 2013, 19:41
A powerful car bomb struck the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group today, killing 20 people, wounding 120 and trapping ma(...)