Militants struck with nine car bombs and a shooting in six different Iraqi cities and towns on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 42, officials said.

With the latest violence, at least 2

Gunmen pulled 20 Shiite Muslims from a bus and killed them at point blank range in Pakistan on Thursday, the third such incident in six months, officials said.

The incident happened in the northweste

A suicide bomber killed 20 people in an apparent sectarian attack in south Iraq on Saturday casting a pall over the climax of a Shiite pilgrimage that draws hundreds of thousands from around the world

Middle East powerhouse Turkey on Wednesday warned against a sectarian Cold War in the region and said rising Sunni-Shi'ite tensions would be 'suicide' for the whole region.

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Nine policemen were hurt when a car hit them while they were dispersing a protest in a Bahrain Shiite village, in the first clash reported since security forces crushed a month-long protest in mid-March, BNA state news agency said.