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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.
Up to 21 Sunni mosques were attacked in reprisals for the bombing. The attacks included shootings and acts of arson. Three mosques were completely destroyed by explosives. In the mainly Shia city of Basra, armed men in police uniforms seized eleven Sunni Muslim men, including some Saudi, Turkish and Egyptian nationals, from the Mina prison. The ...
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 ...
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]
In Saudi Arabia, several attacks against the Shia Muslim Minority were reported, however, the suicide explosion in the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque is one of the deadliest attacks. [5] Reportedly 150 people were present in the mosque for Friday prayers. The mosque suicide attack killed 23 people. [11]
The 2007 al-Askari mosque bombing (Arabic: تفجير مسجد العسكري) occurred on 13 June 2007 at around 9 am local time at one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, the al-Askari Mosque, and has been attributed by Iran to the Iraqi Baath Party.
On 4 March 2022, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province attacked a Shia mosque at Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.The suicide attack, carried out by an Afghan man who was a long-term resident of Pakistan, killed at least 63 people and injured another 196.