Iranian riot police are seen on a street of Tehran in June 2009 (AFP Photo/STR)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iranian police said Tuesday the number of security officers killed in overnight protests by a Sufi sect had risen to five, with around 300 people arrested. The demonstrations by the Gonabadi Sufi ...
Iranian officials said Tuesday at least five members of the country’s security forces were killed and more than 300 people arrested during overnight clashes between Sufi protesters and police in the capital, Tehran. Monday’s protests in front of a police station in northern Tehran were held by ...
TEHRAN — Three Iranian police officers and two paramilitary troops were killed overnight during clashes with members of a Sufi Islam order in Tehran, Iranian news outlets reported on Tuesday, the most casualties the security forces have suffered in one evening since the height of antigovernment ...
Five members of security forces are reported killed; sect members known as dervishes had staged sit-in outside police post/ Police in Tehran arrested hundreds of protesters after five security personnel were killed in confrontations with members of a mystical Islamic sect, the latest sign of ...
Five members of Iranian security forces were killed in Tehran on Monday night in clashes with protesters from a religious order, 300 of whom were arrested, the police said. Members of the Gonabadi Dervishes, who follow the mystical Sufi strain of Islam, considered a threat by the theocratic ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Clashes took place outside a Tehran police station between Iranian police and members of the Dervish minority Three Iranian police officers have been killed in clashes with members of a Sufi Muslim religious community, police say. A protest ...
Iranian authorities say three police officers have been killed in clashes with followers of a Sufi Muslim religious community in Tehran. Official media quoted police spokesman Saeed Montazer al-Mahdi as saying on February 19 that the police officers were "martyred in the street in a vicious ...
Three police officers were killed in Tehran on Monday, a police spokesman said, as clashes broke out with members of a Muslim religious order seen as a threat to the Shi‘ite theocratic establishment. Video footage posted on social media on Monday evening showed clashes between security forces ...
People are affected by tear gas fired by anti-riot Iranian police to disperse demonstrators in a protest over Iran's weak economy, in Tehran, Iran. (AP)/ Three police officers were killed on Monday in clashes with protesters in northern Tehran, police spokesman Saeed Montazer al-Mahdi said on ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill stripping the state's Democratic governor of any role in picking someone to occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader The legislation calls for a ...
, Ohio (WJW) – Massive flames could be seen shooting from an abandoned Cleveland church early Thursday morning./ The church, located near the corner of E. 91st Street and Miles Park, has been identified as the former Pentecostal Determine Church of God . According to the Fire officials said the ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Bakytzhan Sagintayev in Moscow/ MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies ...
A giant anaconda has been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon, possibly killed by a gunshot wound, according to a Dutch researcher who studies snakes and recently helped discover a giant anaconda that was a contender for the largest snake in the world. The snake found dead is not the same as the ...
U.S. President Biden hosts a Juneteenth concert at the White House in Washington/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The woman who admitted to stealing President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley's diary and helping sell it to conservative activists could face arrest as soon as Friday after skipping her sentencing, ...
Stacy Oliver holds display of Mike Lindell, the controversial CEO of My Pillow who has advocated falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election, during a rally in Redding, Calif., on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Oliver supports recalling Shasta County Supervisor Kevin Crye from office. Crye is one ...
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Amit Soussana has become the first Israeli woman to speak publicly about enduring what she says was a sexual assault and other forms of violence during her 55 days in captivity following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, according to reporting by The New York Times on Tuesday. ...
run government media office says 18 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect desperately-needed aid that was airdropped over northern Gaza. Twelve people drowned when they went into the sea to retrieve food packages, according to a statement. The other six were trampled to death in ...
Ecuador’s youngest mayor and her press officer were found Sunday shot to death in a vehicle amid an ongoing state of emergency, police said. , the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente and member of the left-wing Citizen Revolution Party, was found alongside her advisor, Jairo Loor, in the vehicle, ...