Shiite Shrines

Iran has arrested 26 foreign nationals over their alleged involvement in a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a Shiite Muslim shrine, the intelligence ministry said Monday.

Iran's leaders vowed Thursday to "punish" those behind a shooting that killed 15 worshippers at a Shiite Muslim shrine, as security forces pushed on with their deadly crackdown against women-led protests.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack Wednesday on a Shiite Muslim shrine in southern Iran that state media said killed more than a dozen people.

At least 13 people were killed Wednesday by armed "terrorists" who attacked a Shiite Muslim shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, state television said.

More than 30 pilgrims were killed and dozens injured Tuesday in a stampede at a major shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala on the Shiite holy day of Ashura.

At least 14 people were killed in a terrorist attack on a Shiite shrine in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, an official said.

ISIS group terrorists killed 30 people at a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad, striking the area with suicide bombers, gunfire and mortar rounds, an Iraqi security spokesman said on Friday.

Suicide bombers struck outside a Shiite shrine near Syria's capital today, leaving at least 20 people dead, a monitor said, in an attack claimed by the ISIS.

Tens of thousands of Shiite faithful converged on a north Baghdad shrine on Tuesday for the peak of an annual pilgrimage, braving the threat of attack after two jihadist bombings.

A car bomb killed at least seven people near the revered Shiite shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, today, state television reported.

A string of suicide bombings near a Shiite shrine outside Syria's capital and in Homs claimed by terrorists killed at least 142 people on Sunday, as Washington and Moscow worked to secure a ceasefire.

At least 50 people were killed and 200 were wounded Sunday in a series of attacks, including a car bombing, near a Shiite shrine south of Syria's capital, state television and a monitor said.

An AFP photographer said the explosions damaged the facade of a nearby building, scorching all of its six storeys.

At least 45 people were killed and 110 wounded today in three bomb blasts near a revered Shiite shrine south of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media reported.

A Bangladesh anti-terrorist force killed two members of a banned Islamist group on Monday, a force spokesman said, the latest clash in an intensified a hunt for militants behind a spate of violence.

Iran has arrested 26 foreign nationals over their alleged involvement in a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a Shiite Muslim shrine, the intelligence ministry said Monday.

Iran's leaders vowed Thursday to "punish" those behind a shooting that killed 15 worshippers at a Shiite Muslim shrine, as security forces pushed on with their deadly crackdown against women-led protests.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack Wednesday on a Shiite Muslim shrine in southern Iran that state media said killed more than a dozen people.

At least 13 people were killed Wednesday by armed "terrorists" who attacked a Shiite Muslim shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, state television said.

More than 30 pilgrims were killed and dozens injured Tuesday in a stampede at a major shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala on the Shiite holy day of Ashura.

At least 14 people were killed in a terrorist attack on a Shiite shrine in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, an official said.

ISIS group terrorists killed 30 people at a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad, striking the area with suicide bombers, gunfire and mortar rounds, an Iraqi security spokesman said on Friday.

Suicide bombers struck outside a Shiite shrine near Syria's capital today, leaving at least 20 people dead, a monitor said, in an attack claimed by the ISIS.

Tens of thousands of Shiite faithful converged on a north Baghdad shrine on Tuesday for the peak of an annual pilgrimage, braving the threat of attack after two jihadist bombings.

A car bomb killed at least seven people near the revered Shiite shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, today, state television reported.

A string of suicide bombings near a Shiite shrine outside Syria's capital and in Homs claimed by terrorists killed at least 142 people on Sunday, as Washington and Moscow worked to secure a ceasefire.

At least 50 people were killed and 200 were wounded Sunday in a series of attacks, including a car bombing, near a Shiite shrine south of Syria's capital, state television and a monitor said.

An AFP photographer said the explosions damaged the facade of a nearby building, scorching all of its six storeys.

At least 45 people were killed and 110 wounded today in three bomb blasts near a revered Shiite shrine south of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media reported.

A Bangladesh anti-terrorist force killed two members of a banned Islamist group on Monday, a force spokesman said, the latest clash in an intensified a hunt for militants behind a spate of violence.