A large number of Muslim Americans have held a demonstration in New York to condemn the Nigerian military’s massacre of Shia Muslims. 18.12.2015

Pakistan's United Ulema Forum observed a day of protest against killings of around 500 Shia Muslims and the arrest of Ayatollah Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky in Nigeria by the country’s government.

An Air France plane has made an emergency landing in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa over a bomb threat.

Ibrahim al-Zakzaky’s son says his family has not been able to contact the Nigerian Shia leader since his arrest by the country’s forces earlier in the week.

The African Union (AU)’s Peace and Security Council has proposed to dispatch 5,000 peacekeepers to Burundi amid the deadly violence that has killed hundreds in the country.

Weeks-long clashes between Ethiopian security forces and protesters from the country’s largest ethnic community have resulted in scores of fatalities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.

Initial results of a referendum in Rwanda point to overwhelming voter support for the extension of ruling President Paul Kagame’s term, the director of the electoral commission has said.

Students in Jammu city of India strongly condemns the Shia Killings in Nigeria by the blood thirsty pro-Zionist Nigerian military

Hundred of thousands came out to sympathizes with members of the Islamic movement protesting the atrocities of the Nigerian Government on Sheikh Ibraheem Yaquob El Zakzaky (H) and his followers in Kano city Nigeria today Tuesday 15th Seoptember, 2015.

Following the deadly attacks on Shiites in Nigeria, Pakistan's Parachinar and Azerbaijan, the Ahlul Bayt World Assembly issued a statement.

The Nigerian army has confirmed the arrest of the country’s Shia leader Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky in the wake of a deadly attack on Shia Muslims in the northern city of Zaria.

The government of President Abdul Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt is manipulating the public with theories that the world is conspiring against the North African country while it is severely restricting the freedom of expression, says a renowned Egyptian writer, novelist and political activist, Alaa al-Aswany.

Iran has called on Nigerian authorities to respect religious figures and sites following two days of deadly persecution against the country’s Shia Muslims.

At least 10 people have lost their lives and more than two others, mostly civilians, sustained injuries in an exchange of gunfire between militiamen in Somalia’s south-central region of Hiran.

The Burundian army says the death toll from a series of attacks against three military bases in the capital, Bujumbura, has risen to 87.

An Egyptian military court has sentenced nearly 220 Muslim Brotherhood members to hefty jail terms over their alleged roles in a series of anti-government protests in 2013, Press TV reports.

Nigerian government troops have carried out a raid on the private residence of a top Shia cleric in the country’s northern regions.

Egyptian military has demolished 20 more tunnels between the country and the besieged Gaza Strip, which has been under an Israeli blockade for the past several years.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has suggested that military operations against the Takfiri Boko Haram militants could be extended as the Abuja government is likely to miss a deadline to end the militancy.

Officials and aid groups in Ethiopia have voiced alarm over the food crisis caused by a crippling drought plaguing the Horn of Africa state, saying over 10 million people, mostly children, need emergency food aid by January.