The terrorist affiliated with the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack even before the confirmation of the shooting by the Afghan Taliban. The attack is one of the deadliest in the country this year.
This comes two weeks after at least seven people were killed in a blast targeting a Shiite mosque in Baghlan district. A group affiliated with the Islamic State is believed to be responsible for such attacks, including those on other Shiite areas.
14 people were killed and another 26 injured in a militant attack on a Shiite shrine in Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, police officials said.
Baghdad: An attack carried out by multiple suicide bombers and gunmen on a Shiite shrine in Balad north of Baghdad late on Thursday night killed 30 and wounded 52, according to Iraqi police and hospital
Nigeria's Kaduna state government has said it secretly buried hundreds of minority Shiite Muslims in a mass grave, after the victims were killed in army raids that underline ongoing impunity despite President Muhammadu Buhari's promises to end milita
Karachi: At least 11 minority Shia Muslims, including six children, were killed and 12 injured when a suicide bomber wearing a burqa blew himself up at a shrine in a village in Pakistan's restive Balochistan
Sanaa, Yemen: Yemen's powerful Shiite rebels announced on Friday that they have taken over the country and dissolved parliament, a dramatic move that finalizes their months-long power grab.The development also pushes the impoverished country further
Sanaa: Shiite rebels holding Yemen's president captive in his home reached a deal with the US-backed leader today to end a violent standoff in the capital, the country's state news agency reported. The agreement promised
Sanaa (Yemen): Two Yemeni presidential advisers say the Shiite rebels who are on a power grab campaign in the capital, Sanaa, are holding the president "captive" at his home, a day after seizing the presidential
Baghadad: A wave of explosions rocked Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad shortly after sunset today, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The attacks, two carried out by parked explosives-laden cars and one
Baghdad, May 20: A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighbourhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people and wounded dozens on Monday, Iraqi officials said.In the Iraqi capital,
Beirut, Apr 23: Two Syrian rockets struck Lebanon on Tuesday, causing damage and heightening tensions between Lebanese Shiite and Sunni communities over neighbouring Syria's civil war, security officials in Beirut said.Rockets apparently fired by Syrian
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