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epa04761736 People and members of the emergency services stand amidst the wreckage of the Shiite Imam Ali mosque in a village in the eastern province of Qatif, Saudi Arabia, 22 May 2015. According to intial reports some 30 people are thought to have been killed in the explosion which ocurred when the Mosque was filled due to Friday prayers with an estimated 150 Shiites, a minority, roughly 10-15 percent, population in the mainly Wahhabi country, and who live mainly in Qatif and al-Ahsa. EPA/STR
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Members of Iraqi Shi’ite militia who have joined to fight with Iraqi forces stand guard during a training course at a military barracks in Nikheb town near Ramadi, Iraq, on May 20, 2015. (EPA/Alaa Al-Shemaree)
Shi’ite militias deploy to take on ISIS insurgents near Iraq’s Ramadi
Baghdad and Beirut, Reuters—A convoy of Shi’ite Muslim militia and Iraqi army forces set out from a base near Ramadi on Saturday to advance on areas held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a Shi’ite spokesman said, launching a counter-offensive...Caption:
A family member of a slain victim mourns after arriving at the Ali Ibn Abu Talib Mosque, the site of a suicide bomb attack, in the village of Al-Qadeeh in the eastern province of Qatif, Saudi Arabia, on May 22, 2015. (Reuters)
Saudi Arabia vows to hunt down Qatif attack “masterminds”
Qatif and Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia vowed to hunt down those behind the deadly terrorist attack on a Shi’ite mosque in the village of Al-Qadeeh in the eastern province of Qatif on Friday. The blast at the Ali Ibn Abu Talib Mosque in the small town of...Caption:
Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants at a temporary shelter in Bayeun village, Aceh province, Indonesia, on May 23, 2015.
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