Rebel cleric among 60 dead at Pakistan mosque
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Pakistani forces killed a rebel Islamist leader and more than 50 militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in an Islamabad mosque compound to end a week-long siege.
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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim cleric has been shot dead in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Mufti Mohammed Jamil was reported to have been on his way home when two gunmen on a motorcycle stopped his car and opened fire with automatic weapons.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani resumed control over the Imam Ali shrine Friday while a final handful of militiamen loyal to a rebel Shiite cleric exited the compound after a deadly
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Shi'ite fighters appeared  still to be in control of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city  Najaf early on Saturday, but the whereabouts of their leader,  the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, were unknown.
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Pakistani authorities issued a "last warning" on Sunday to a rebel Islamist cleric and his fighters holed up in an Islamabad mosque, as speculation mounted security forces would launch a full-scale assault.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound on Tuesday, killing up to 50 militants, as they fought their way through an Islamic school where they believed a rebel cleric was hiding along with women and children.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 9 -- A day after the death of a senior Pakistani commando, government officials said Sunday that the fighters holed up inside an Islamabad mosque are well-trained and well-armed radicals with connections to known terrorist groups.
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Grieving relatives and villagers buried a rebel Pakistani cleric on Thursday, but almost 70 followers killed with him when troops stormed an Islamabad mosque were interred without ceremony in unmarked graves.
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Security forces backed by helicopters attacked a stronghold of a militant cleric in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, trading fire with his supporters near the scene of a suicide attack that killed 20 people, police said
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A radical cleric says his followers will not surrender as tensions mount at Pakistan's besieged Red Mosque.
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More than 30 people were killed in northwest Pakistan on Sunday in a surge of militant violence which officials said could be aimed at avenging the commando assault on a radical mosque in the capital last week.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - More than 30 people were killed on Friday in a suspected suicide bombing at a northwest Pakistan mosque, where a former interior minister was offering Muslim Eid festival prayers with worshippers, police said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Shi'ite fighters appeared  still to be in control of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city  of Najaf, but the whereabouts of their leader, the fiery cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr, were unknown on Saturday.
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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim  cleric and an associate were shot dead in southern Pakistan on  Saturday, the latest attack in religious violence that has  already killed more than 70 people this month.
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Nearly 700 radical Muslim students surrendered at a besieged mosque in the Pakistani capital on Wednesday, but thousands of militants remained inside a day after 11 people were killed in clashes.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  on Friday ordered his men inside Najaf's Imam Ali mosque to lay  down their weapons and join thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims  outside the shrine.
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Pakistani authorities issued a &quot;last  warning&quot; on Sunday to a rebel Islamist cleric and his fighters  holed up in an Islamabad mosque, as speculation mounted  security forces would launch a full-scale assault.