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Dozens injured as blast rocks market in Parachinar – The Express Tribune

At least 10 people were killed and scores injured as a blast rocked Parachinar’s local market on Friday. The blast occurred near Parachinar’s Shandak Bazaar, which according to eyewitnesses killed at least 10 people. Political administration has declared emergency in all markets and hospitals in nearby areas.

See also alJazeera
and the BBC
and Dawn
and Express Tribune

ISIS Threatens Iran in New Video | The Iran Primer

On March 27, the Islamic State group released a rare Farsi-language video threatening Iran. The nearly 40-minute clip, issued on social media by the group’s Diyala Province in neighboring Iraq, is titled “The Farsi Land: From Yesterday ’till Today.”

Rex Tillerson to Lift Human Rights Conditions on Arms Sale to Bahrain

The State Department on Wednesday notified Congress of its intent to proceed with the sale without the conditions, according to Micah Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Congress now has two review periods to examine the sale and raise any objections.

18-year-old Mustafa Hamdan dies after security forces shooting – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain

24 March 2017 – Mustafa Hamdan, 18, died this morning at the Salmaniya Medical Complex, two months after security forces shot him in head and rendered him comatose. We, the undersigned, consider Hamdan’s death an extrajudicial killing by the Bahraini Government. We condemn state violence employed against peaceful protesters, the …

UMAA v. Trump

On March 23, 2017, Muslim Advocates and our partners, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, filed UMAA v. Trump to challenge President Trump’s second Muslim ban.

See also:
https://www.splcenter.org/seeking-justice/case-docket/universal-muslim-association-america-inc-et-al-v-donald-j-trump-et-al
http://au.org/tags/umaa-v-trump

البحرين | السيستاني يتدخّل لـ”تسوية” قضية عيسى قاسم؟

Pakistani military engagement: Walking a fine line between Saudi Arabia and Iran

See also the 1981 Christian Science Monitor article cited herein.

Two bombs go off in Damascus, fatalities reported

As Trump Makes Threats, Iran Makes Friends

What Saudi King Salman wants from his tour of China, Malaysia