Pakistan troops kill rebel cleric at mosque
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Pakistani forces killed a rebel Islamist leader and more than 50 of his militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in a Islamabad mosque compound at the climax of a week-long siege.
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Security forces fired on a stronghold of a militant cleric in Pakistan, sparking a gunbattle near the scene of a suicide attack on a military truck that killed 20 people.
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Yemen says its forces have killed rebel Shia cleric Hussein al-Houthi, who had led a two month rebellion.
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The top cleric at a besieged mosque in Pakistan's capital accused security forces on Saturday of killing more than 70 of his students, but said he and his supporters preferred martyrdom to capture.
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Pakistani troops in armoured vehicles enforced a shoot-on-sight curfew around a pro-Taliban mosque in Islamabad on Wednesday after clashes with radical students left at least 16 people dead.
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Pakistani commandos battled die-hard Islamic militants holed up in a radical mosque through the night and into the early morning Wednesday, killing an extremist cleric and dozens of his followers in an assault that ignited fiery protests and calls for revenge by Islamic extremists.
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Unidentified gunmen kill a prominent Sunni Muslim cleric and his colleague in Pakistan's city of Karachi.
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At least five Islamist students and a Pakistani soldier were killed and more than 400 people injured in gunbattles Tuesday at a radical mosque in Islamabad, hospital and security officials said.
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Gunmen have killed the representative of Iraq's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric along with his son and four bodyguards in a town south of Baghdad, an official in the cleric's office said Thursday.
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Pakistani security forces battled militants at the seminary of a powerful extremist cleric, according to police officials.
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A senior Pakistani soldier is killed in the latest clash with Islamist students barricaded in an Islamabad mosque.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  -- Security forces clashed with militants Tuesday outside a radical mosque where students have carried out a string of kidnappings of police officers and alleged prostitutes, killing five people, officials 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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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim cleric together with an associate were shot dead in southern Pakistan yesterday, the latest attack in religious violence that has already killed more than 70 people this month.
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Pakistani paramilitary forces killed one of the most wanted militants in the country Sunday, a government official said. Amjad Hussain Farooqi was killed in an early morning raid
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Nine people were shot dead on Tuesday  in clashes between Pakistani paramilitary forces and radical  Muslim students at an Islamabad mosque run by a Taliban-style  movement, officials said.
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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops has been killed, officials say.