Rebel cleric killed in assault on Pakistan mosque: official
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Pakistani security forces killed on Tuesday rebel cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi during an assault on his mosque complex, an interior ministry official told Reuters.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Government troops stormed the compound of Islamabad's Red Mosque before dawn today, prompting a fierce firefight with militants accused of holding scores of hostages, officials said. At least 40 rebels and three soldiers were killed.
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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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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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Rebel cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi among at least 59 people killed during battle for Islamabad compound.
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KARACHI: Two Sunni clerics were killed in an ambush on their van as they went to a mosque for Maghrib prayers on Saturday, police said.
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A Pakistani army commander was shot and killed by Islamic radicals Sunday during an operation where troops blasted holes in a besieged mosque's perimeter walls, escalating an already tense stand-off between troops and the radical Islamists hiding inside.
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An Islamic cleric arrested in Pakistan for suspected al-Qaeda links dies in custody, officials say.
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Pakistan counted the human and political cost on Wednesday of an armed assault that killed a rebel cleric and at least 50 Islamist fighters and eight soldiers at an Islamabad mosque after a week-long siege.
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At least 12 people were killed in a  suspected suicide bombing at a mosque in northwest Pakistan,  the Federal Secretary of Interior Syed Kamal Shah said on  Friday.
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SAN&#39;A, Yemen - Yemen&#39;s Defense and Interior ministries announced the death of a rebel cleric who has led his followers in fierce battles with the government for more than two months, the country&#39;s official news agency reported Friday.
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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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A battle to end a standoff at a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, left 8 security officers and 50 religious militants, including their ringleader, dead.
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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.
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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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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi forces backed by U.S. soldiers and Marines raided mosques Tuesday in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi and detained a prominent cleric following fierce clashes that hospital officials said killed at least four people...
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Gunmen killed a representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric, along with the aide's son and four bodyguards in a town south of Baghdad, an official in the cleric's office said Thursday.