In Bahrain 36 Shia-Muslims have been sentenced to up to 25 years in jail each in three separate cases arising from pro-reform demonstrations, in the latest heavy sentences handed out by a mixed ...
A Bahraini special court on Sunday jailed the head of the teachers' union for 10 years and his deputy for three for their role in anti-regime protests.
A series of blasts at a passport and ID card office in the Iraqi city of Karbala killed at least nine people and injured 99, while violence elsewhere claimed another three lives.
Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Najib Mikati on Monday announced the formation of a new 30-member cabinet in which Shia-Muslim-based Hezbollah and its allies hold the majority.
Emergency rule in Bahrain is to be lifted on 1 June, state news agency BNA says. Earlier Sunday opposition leaders appeared before a military court, charged with forming a terrorist ...
Gunmen killed five people Friday when they opened fire on members of the Shia-Muslim community visiting a cemetery in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta, police said.
