Damascus, May 1 (IANS) A Shia cleric was critically wounded on Friday when assailants threw a grenade into his car in the Sayyida Zeinab suburb of Damascus, according to a war monitor, though Syrian authorities confirmed only that an explosion had occurred in the area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights identified the target as Farhan Mansour, a member of the Shia religious authority and a Friday preacher.The Britain-based monitor said unknown assailants attacked Mansour near the Safir al-Z…
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New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) More than 30 people were killed and over 150 were injured in the Islamabad mosque blast as the powerful explosion ripped through the crowded gathering on Saturday. Preliminary findings pointed at a suicide bomber, who purportedly detonated the device, after approaching the Shia mosque in Tarlai area.However, what perplexed everyone was that Pakistani leadership shifting blame on its neighbours, including India and Afghanistan, and not admitting the gaps in its security me…
Damascus, Dec 25 (IANS) Syrian security forces arrested a senior leader of the Islamic State (IS) group during a security operation in the countryside of Damascus, Syrian state media reported.Citing an Interior Ministry source, state-run SANA news agency on Wednesday (local time) said that the operation, carried out in coordination with the General Intelligence Service and a US-led international coalition, targeted an IS hideout in the city of al-Moadamiya in Rural Damascus after intensive surve…