Red Mosque operation 'nears end'
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An operation to flush out militants from Islamabad's Red Mosque is in its final stages, Pakistan's army says.
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JERUSALEM: Israel scaled back its vast operation in northern Gaza despite the deaths of four more Palestinians as tens of thousands of Muslims joined the first Friday prayers of Ramadan at Jerusalem&#39;s Al Aqsa mosque.
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Militants numbering in the dozens remained holed up in the Red Mosque complex, even after reports that the arrested leader had called for an end to the siege.
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Officials said yesterday the number of Muslim worshipers allowed onto the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the coming month of Ramadan may have to be limited because of a danger the biblical-era complex might collapse.
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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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President Musharraf says security forces should halt operations at Islamabad's Red Mosque to let women leave.
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NAJAF, Iraq - The handover of the Najaf shrine from Moqtada Sadrâs militiamen to the Shia religious leadership has been suspended until further notice, a spokesman for the radical leader said on Sunday.
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A British convert to Islam was told today that a terrorism control order imposed on him is to be quashed.
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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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A deadline for militant students to surrender at a Pakistan mosque passed on Wednesday, as hundreds of troops surround the building in the capital.
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Iraqi police say an agreement on ending the violence in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf has been reached.
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After more than two years of battling remnants of al Qaeda and the Taliban, Pakistan&#39;s government announced late Friday it will end its military operation in the tense tribal region of South Waziristan.
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GAZA, Gaza Strip  - Israeli forces ended an  operation in the northern Gaza Strip less then 24 hours after  they raided the area to try to stop cross-border rocket attacks  by Palestinian militants, the army said Monday.
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The Pakistan government has set a deadline of 11 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Wednesday for militant students at a mosque in the capital to surrender after 11 people were killed in clashes a day earlier, a spokesman said.
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Pakistani forces were almost finished combing through the many rooms of the Red Mosque complex Wednesday in search of unexploded grenades and anti-government militants still inside the compound, an army spokesman said.
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Security is increased in Pakistan ahead of protests over the government's operation against Islamabad's radical Red Mosque.
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Pakistani troops in Islamabad begin an operation to clear militants from the Red Mosque, after talks fail.