Gunmen Slay Two Top Clerics in Baghdad
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Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim cleric as he entered a mosque in Baghdad to perform noon prayers Monday, the second slaying of a cleric from the influential Association of Muslim Scholars in as many days, the group said.
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Gunmen killed nine members of two Shi'ite families in Baghdad on Sunday a day after militias raided a mixed neighborhood and forced dozens of Sunni families to flee in a serious escalation of sectarian violence.
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A mortar attack killed two Iraqis outside a stadium in Baghdad's Sadr City where people were lining up to sell back their weapons to police on the last day of an initiative to disarm rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr's ...
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Gunmen attacked two Shiite homes in western Baghdad, killing 10 people, police said Sunday, while seven others died in clashes elsewhere in the capital.
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Insurgents launched two major attacks Friday against a Shiite mosque and a police station in Baghdad, killing 30 people, including at least 16 police officers, the deadliest insurgent attacks in weeks.
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen killed an aide to Iraq's top Shi'ite Muslim cleric, intensifying the threat of a violent sectarian split with the approach of national elections that political leaders are struggling to salvage.
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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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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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Gunmen killed Baghdad's deputy police chief  in the middle of rush hour Monday morning, the latest in a spate of high profile assassinations in advance of Iraq's scheduled Jan. 30 election.
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A senior cleric belonging to a Pakistani extremist party was shot dead when a man opened fire at him as he stood on his front doorstep, police and party officials said.
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Gunmen stormed into the homes of two Shi'ite families in a predominantly Sunni Arab district of Baghdad on Sunday, killing nine people, police said.
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Gunmen and bombers killed 30 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, including 14 Shi'ite religious workers after a powerful Iraqi Shi'ite leader urged President George Bush to strike harder at Sunni rebels to avert civil war.
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Iraqi troops backed by US forces have raided a Sunni mosque in the Iraqi capital, killing at least two people. On Thursday, the Iraqi interim government warned that Islamic clerics who incite
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Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi judge as  he was leaving his home in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, police  sources said.
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Sniper attacks on a Shiite religious procession killed 10 pilgrims and injured 43 in Baghdad on Sunday. Four suspected gunmen were shot dead by police, officials said.
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Snipers fired on a major Shiite religious procession in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 16 pilgrims and injuring 230, officials said. Four suspected gunmen were shot dead by police.
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Insurgents launched two major attacks Friday against a Shiite mosque and a police station in Baghdad, killing 30 people including at least 16 police officers, the deadliest insurgent violence in weeks.