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| Explosions, gunshots at Indian consulate in Afghan city Mazar | | | By Bashir Ansari MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Gunfire and explosions rocked the area around the Indian consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Sunday night as security forces battled gunmen who tried to enter the compound, officials said. Two loud blasts and shots were heard earlier as the gunmen launched an attack from a nearby house after darkness fell, Muneer Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the Balkh province governor said. "Right now our security forces are fighting them," he said. |
| Iran sees "divine vengeance" after Saudis execute Shi'ite cleric | |  By Sam Wilkin and Angus McDowall DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday and Shi'ite Muslim Iran's top leader predicted "divine vengeance" for Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric. Demonstrators protesting against cleric Nimr al-Nimr's execution broke into the embassy building, smashed furniture and started fires before being ejected by police. Iran's President Hassan Rouhani condemned the execution as "inhuman", but also called for prosecuting "extremist individuals" for attacking the embassy and the Saudi consulate in the northeastern city of Mashhad, state media reported Tehran's police chief said an unspecified number of "unruly elements" were arrested for attacking the embassy with petrol bombs and rocks.
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| Americans seek swap in U.S. reporter case, says Iranian official | | | Unnamed Americans have contacted Iran for a deal to swap Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, convicted and jailed in Iran on spying charges, for other unspecified detainees, according to a senior Iranian official quoted on Sunday. "Some Americans contact us sometimes, asking us to exchange him with other detainees, but the sentence has not been announced yet," said judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, quoted by Iran's Fars news agency. Other Iranian officials have played down the possibility of such a swap. |
| Operation to flush out Indian air base attackers enters second night | |  By Mukesh Gupta and Krista Mahr PATHANKOT/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Security forces battled into Sunday evening to secure an air base near the border with Pakistan, a day after a militant attack that has killed seven military personnel and wounded another 20. As night fell, it was unclear whether two or more militants were still at large after Saturday's pre-dawn raid on the Pathankot air base in Punjab. "The area cannot be declared fully sanitised," Air Marshal Anil Khosla told a news briefing in New Delhi.
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| Saudi Arabia, Iran say have no interest in escalation - Austria | |  The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran have told their Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz that they have no interest in a further heightening of tensions after Riyadh's execution of a Shi'ite cleric, a spokesman for Kurz said on Sunday. "Both foreign ministers gave the assurance that no one can have an interest in a further escalation," the spokesman said, adding that Kurz had spoken to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Saudi counterpart Adel al-Jubeir and had called for de-escalation and dialogue between the two countries.
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| Iraq's Sistani condemns Nimr execution, Sadr organises protests | |  Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Sunday condemned the execution of Shi'ite cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia while another leading cleric said he was organising demonstrations in Baghdad and the southern city of Najaf. Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia executed Nimr and three other Shi'ite Muslims alongside dozens of al Qaeda members on Saturday, drawing protests from Shi'ite-majority Iraq and other countries around the world against the kingdom's ruling Al Saud family. "We have received with much sorrow and regret the news of the martyrdom of a number of our brother believers in the region whose pure blood was shed in an unjust aggression," Sistani said in a letter addressed to the population of Saudi Arabia's eastern Qatif region where Nimr used to preach.
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| Saudi seeking sectarian strife by executing Shi'ite cleric - Hezbollah | |  Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday Saudi Arabia's execution of a Shi'ite cleric was a "message of blood", and Riyadh sought to create sectarian strife across the world. The execution on Saturday of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a vocal critic of the Saudi government, drew Shi'ite anger across the region, with protesters in regional rival Iran storming the Saudi Embassy and leaders condemning the move. "We are today faced by an appalling event, a huge event that Al Saud took lightly ... but this is an event that cannot be taken lightly," Nasrallah said in a speech broadcast live on the Lebanese Shi'ite group's Al Manar television.
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| Saudi mass execution driven by fear of Sunni militancy | |  By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's execution of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric provoked sectarian anger across the Middle East, but by putting to death dozens of al Qaeda convicts at the same time it also delivered a strong message that Sunni violence would not be tolerated at home. Riyadh knew its killing of Nimr al-Nimr and three other Shi'ites for involvement in police deaths would prompt outrage and protests abroad, but seemed to calculate that, within the kingdom at least, the consequences would be controllable. Amid rising regional turmoil and a series of bombings and shootings that have killed over 50 Saudis since late 2014, Riyadh's execution of 43 jihadists was a warning that internal support for militant Sunni groups would be crushed.
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| Refugee crisis could shake up German political landscape in 2016 | |  By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - For the past decade, German politics has been a relatively dull affair, with Angela Merkel dominating at the national level and the major parties in agreement on all the big issues, from euro zone bailouts and refugees to the phase-out of nuclear energy. Not only is Chancellor Merkel looking more vulnerable than ever before because of her welcoming stance towards the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war in the Middle East, but the rise of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has injected a new element of surprise into the political landscape. Add to that an unprecedented splintering of the electorate, which means that six parties have a legitimate shot of entering most state parliaments, and Germany's normally cozy, consensual politics begins to look a bit less predictable, and potentially more divisive, than it has in a long time.
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