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On 15 July 2024, six people, including a policeman, were killed and 28 others were injured in a rare shooting attack near a Shia Muslim mosque in Oman's capital, Muscat. The Islamic State and Gim claimed responsibility for the attack.
The attack, one of northwestern Pakistan's deadliest incidents of sectarian violence in recent years, marked a significant escalation in sectarian tensions that had already claimed numerous lives in preceding months. [citation needed] Sunni and Shia Muslims are in conflict in the region over a dispute over land. [6]
The Shah Cheragh attack (Persian: حمله به حرم شاهچراغ) was a terrorist attack [2] that occurred on 26 October 2022 at Shah Cheragh mosque, a Shia pilgrimage site in Shiraz in southern Iran, in which at least 13 people were killed. [3] The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. [4]
Several gunmen burst into a Shiite mosque in the Gulf Arab state of Oman and opened fire, killing six people and wounding nearly 30 more, authorities said Tuesday, stunning the peaceful sultanate ...
During the Shia pilgrimage festivities to the mosque that lasted three days from 6 – 8 July various attacks in the city took place. The most deadly attack occurred in the hours before tens of thousands of Shia's came into Baghdad amid heavy security for the pilgrimage. Hundreds of tents were erected to feed people as they came into town.
Following attacks included a school massacre in 2014 and another attack on a Shia mosque in 2015. [8] [9] Peshawar experienced "a relative lull" in the years preceding the 2022 attack, [1] [10] but there was otherwise "a significant increase of violence" along military outposts at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months before ...
A suicide bombing took place on 26 June 2015 at a Shia mosque in Kuwait.The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the attack. [2] Sabah al-Sabah, the Emir at the time, arrived at the location of the incident after a short period of time. [4]
Furthermore, the Prophet's Mosque is non-denominational by definition, as its foundation predates the schism between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam. An attempted attack against this target, especially taking place just before Eid al-Fitr, was thus seen by commentators to be "an attack against all Muslims". [16] [17]