Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Khalifa on Sunday announced constitutional amendments giving parliament more power, as the pro-American Gulf nation has been witnessing sectarian violence in the wake of a clampdown on a pro-democracy opposition movement.
A Shiite Muslim procession in central Pakistani town of Khanpur was targeted by a homemade bomb on Sunday which claimed the lives of 18 people and wounded dozens. The remote-controlled device exploded as the procession approached, police said.
Armed insurgents set off a series of coordinated bomb blasts in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday before storming a police building. The violence in the predominantly Sunni city comes a day after a bomber killed scores of Shiite pilgrims in Basra.
A new series of attacks across Iraq on Monday left 11 people dead, many of them Shiite pilgrims, in bombings in and around the capital, including a car bomb that killed four people near a Shiite mosque in southwest Baghdad.
A wave of bomb attacks hits Baghdad, all targeting Shiite areas. Our reporters meet with Iraqis who have already lived through years of sectarian violence. Plus, it’s a key passageway for the world economy - the Strait of Hormuz is vital to the transit of oil coming from the Gulf. With Iran now threatening to close it off, we look at the strategic importance of this shipping route.
In December 2011, the last G.I. left Iraq, ending nine years of occupation. The Americans leave behind them a profoundly divided country, beset by violence and in the grip of a political crisis. Our reporters went to meet the Shiites and Sunnis to guage the tension between the two communities.
A series of blasts in Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad and across Iraq killed at least 73 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday, triggering fears that sectarian violence is on the rise.
A suicide bomber set off a car bomb Monday at the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, officials said. The blast killed at least five and wounded dozens of others in the wake of a wave of deadly attacks that struck Baghdad on Thursday.
A wave of seemingly coordinated attacks swept through Baghdad's neighbourhoods on Thursday, leaving dozens dead and many more injured. This, in the wake of heightened sectarian tensions between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite communities, as the country's fraglile coalition government led by Nouri al-Maliki, threatens to implode. It's perhaps not the picture of stability the United States would like to portray just days after it withdrew its remaining troops.
Baghdad was rocked by 14 deadly bomb blasts on Thursday which killed at least 67 people. The attacks come amid a widening rift between Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Sunni political leaders that threatens to tear the country apart.
