Month: April 2016

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1. Rather Than Defeat ISIS, Kurds Are Turning on Shiites
2. Iraq Shuts Al-Jazeera Bureau For ‘Instigating Violence’
3. Uneasy alliance between Kurds and Shiites in Iraq under further strain
4. Nigerian Shiite group demands exhumation after deadly clashes
5. Arab Youths View Islamic State as a Major Mideast Obstacle, Want Less Religion
6. Translator of Sahifa Sajjadiyya into Croatian praised by Senior Shia cleric ‘Ayatollah Taskhiri’
7. Bahraini protesters decry regime’s demolition of Shia mosques
8. Syria denies shelling Aleppo hospital
9. Analysis: Saudi 2030 Plan; Fantasy or Reality?
10. Italian Police Arrest Six Suspected International Terrorists

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1. Saudi efforts to ‘modernise’ its economy away from oil are just PR tactics – and the West is lapping them up
2. Bahrain jails 8 for life over ‘terrorism’
3. Majority of Lebanese Muslims want less Sharia
4. Iraqi Shiite Turkmen, Kurdish Peshmarga agree to withdraw forces from Tuz Khurmatu after clashes
5. Triple talaq: Why is Muslim Law Board being misogynist?
6. More troops, no stability: America’s vicious cycle in Iraq
7. Dubai Teacher Fined AED 500,000 For Using Hateful Language On WhatsApp
8. Shia religious scholar slaughtered in Pakistan’s Hyderabad
9. Iraqi Kurds, volunteer forces agree to withdraw from northern town
10. Arms, financial aid to terrorist groups must end: Iran official

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1. IS suicide attack kills eight at Iraq Shiite mosque
2. India’s Supreme Court Takes on Controversial ‘Triple Talaq’ Practice
3. Amnesty says Nigerian military killed hundreds of minority Shiite Muslims
4. Iraqi warplanes destroy Daesh oil convoy in Nineveh province
5. Iran, flag-bearer of fight against terrorism: Rouhani
6. UN torture committee calls on Saudi to stop corporal punishments
7. Iran’s Zarif signs Paris Agreement on climate change
8. Russian sappers discover Daesh largest ammunition cache in Palmyra
9. Tehran Friday Prayers Leader: Collapse of Al Saud Imminent
10. Photos: Imam Ali’s (AS) Birth Anniversary Celebrated in Sanabis, Bahrain

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1. Will the U.S. Confront Saudi Leaders About Their Country’s Role in 9/11? Sanders, Clinton Weigh In
2. Al-Sadr appeals for solution to Iraq’s political crisis
3. Yemen rebels to join delayed peace talks in Kuwait
4. Senior ISIS Commander killed Inside Mosul / Pic
5. Mutual suspicion frays historic US-Saudi ties
6. Analysis: Turkey trying to balance relations between Iran, Saudis
7. Obama lands in Saudi Arabia for fence-mending visit amid rift over Iran, Syria
8. Afghanistan attack: Kabul suicide blast deaths rise to 64
9. Yemen’s Houthis to join UN-backed peace talks in Kuwait

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1. Iraq’s top Shiite clerics are in Lebanon to meet with Hezbollah chief
2. Shiite cleric: OIC statement supportive for Zionists
3. Petrol Bomb Attack Kills Bahrain Policeman: Ministry
4. Ukrainian Shittes Call for Establishment of Darul-Quran Center in Kiev
5. Iraqi Shia cleric Sadr gives 72 hours to vote on technocrats’ cabinet
6. “Shadow of the Sun” published on first Shia Imam
7. Bahraini Regime Detains Top Shia Cleric ‘Mohammed al-Mansi’
8. ISIS threats to assassinate 21 Muslim clerics
9. Hand in Hand: Untold Story of Muslim Brotherhood’s Collusion With Daesh
10. Magnitude-7.8 earthquake claims 77 lives in Ecuador

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1. ISIS Urges Supporters to Kill Named Muslim ‘Infidels’ in the West; Rep. Ellison Hits Back: ‘Liars, Murderers, Torturers, and Rapists’
2. Saudi Arabia’s religious police ordered to be ‘gentle’
3. Amnesty International calls for probe into Nigerian military killings of Shias
4. On Saudi arms deal, the new boss in Ottawa is just like the old boss
5. Young Arabs Rejecting Islamic State, Says Annual Survey
6. Over 300 minority Shiite Muslims buried in mass grave in Nigeria
7. Senior Shia scholar calls for cultural, research plans on Islamic proximity
8. Shia cleric congratulates PM for his Saudi Arabia visit
9. Iran builds 2nd hospital in southern Pakistan
10. Jordan Shuts Down Muslim Brotherhood Headquarters

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