Pakistani forces storm mosque compound after talks fail
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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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Islamabad, Pakistan, July 3 -- A long-simmering standoff between the government and a radical mosque in the heart of the Pakistani capital exploded into a vicious street clash on Tuesday, with a soldier and two students dying and dozens more injured.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 10 -- Pakistani commandos stormed the Red Mosque at dawn Tuesday expecting to quickly subdue militants who had laid siege to the complex for eight days. But after more than 10 hours, dozens were dead, intense room-to-room fighting continued and the elite government fight...
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Pakistan demands the surrender of armed students at an Islamabad mosque, after deadly clashes at the site.
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Security forces storm radical mosque in Islamabad  in an effort to end bloody week-long siege.
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More than 500 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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The governmentâs siege of a radical mosque in the center of Islamabad continued for a fourth day after the remaining clericâs offer to surrender was rejected.
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ISLAMABAD-- Positions hardened in the standoff at the Red Mosque yesterday as a peace effort collapsed amid a hail of gunfire and President Pervez Musharraf called on Islamic radicals hunkered down inside to surrender or face death.
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Pakistan's army says it has cleared a mosque in Islamabad of militants, a day after troops stormed the complex.
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New clashes erupt at the Red Mosque in Pakistan's capital, where troops are besieging radical Islamists.
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Demonstrators rallied Friday in Pakistan's major cities to denounce a government assault on a radical mosque that left more than 100 dead, and security forces were deployed to foil revenge attacks by extremists, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, July 10  - Negotiations to an end a bloody standoff at a Pakistani mosque ran into deadlock on Tuesday after earlier speculation that a deal might be struck, the chief government negotiator said.
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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 7 -- Positions hardened in the standoff at the Red Mosque on Saturday, as a peace effort collapsed amid a hail of gunfire and President Pervez Musharraf called on Islamic radicals hunkered down inside to surrender or face death.
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Pakistani commandos blasted holes in the walls of a mosque compound on Sunday with the aim of helping hundreds of women and children escape from the site where Islamist gunmen are in a standoff with security forces.
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Pakistani security forces have completely secured a radical mosque in the capital, Islamabad, and no more fighting is going on in the sprawling complex, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 5 -- Pakistani security forces on Thursday launched an intense operation against militants holed up in an Islamabad mosque, seeking to end a months-long standoff that has turned deadly in recent days.