Dozens of al-Qaeda militants have set up a roadblock on a highway north of Baghdad, stopped trucks, checked IDs and then summarily executed 14 Shia drivers, officials say.
Iraq’s Sunnis and Shiites have attended joint Friday prayers in Baghdad.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Araqchi has condemned the recent terrorist attacks in the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Peshawar that left dozens of people killed or wounded.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on Sunday for joint Sunni-Shiite prayers after a spate of attacks on places of worship, saying the attackers wanted to ignite sectarian strife in Iraq.
Iran’s chargé d'affaires in Egypt has described Shiaphobia as the Zionist regime’s plot to harm Islamic unity and to turn Arab-Israeli conflict into Shia-Sunni conflict.
The Syrian army clears different parts of Darayya, Rif Dimashq, especially the areas surrounding Sayyida Sukaina shrine, of armed terrorists.
A suicide bomber struck in an area between major shrines in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Karbala on Sunday, killing 2 and wounding 11 people, security and medical officials said.
Protests erupted across Pakistan Sunday to demand protection for Shiite Muslims after a bomb blast targeting the minority community killed 81 people, the latest in a series of bloody sectarian attacks.
Unknown gunmen opened fire at a prison and police targets in Saudi Arabia's Shiite-populated Eastern Province, wounding a woman and her child, police and rights activists said on Sunday.
A series of bombings mainly targeting Shiite areas of Baghdad killed at least 21 people on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence to hit Iraq as it struggles with protests and a political crisis.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned against evil plots aimed at causing division among Shia and Sunni Muslims, stressing the importance of reinforcing unity among Muslim nations across the world.