Pakistan gives besieged rebel cleric new ultimatum
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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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Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters Thursday to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities, hours after U.S. forces bombed militant positions and Iraq's prime minister made a "final call" for the cleric's militia to surrender.
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Terrorists wanted for attacks in Pakistan and beyond are leading the resistance against troops besieging a radical Islamic seminary, the government said Sunday, while a mosque spokesman claimed hundreds died in an overnight assault.
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Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has reportedly called on his followers to end fighting against US and Iraqi forces. Naim Al-Kaabi, an aide to al-Sadr in Baghdad, said the cleric has &quot;called for a halting
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KABUL - The militant group holding three foreign UN workers captive in Afghanistan extended an ultimatum for their threatened execution on Wednesday but gave conflicting versions of a new deadline.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his fighters Thursday to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities, hours after U.S. forces bombed militant positions and Iraq's prime minister made a "final call" for the cleric's militia to surrender...
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Pakistani Muslim clerics said on Monday they were making a last-ditch bid to avert an assault on militants holed up in a mosque after authorities issued what they said was a last warning for them to surrender.
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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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Pakistan's president sets up a negotiation team to try to end a week-long stand-off at a radical mosque.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  -- The head of a radical mosque besieged by government forces in the heart of Pakistan's capital rejected calls for an unconditional surrender Friday, saying he and his die-hard followers were ready for martyrdom.
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Suicide bombers have recently turned on Pakistan itself as Islamic militants threaten to open a new front in their war.
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A Pakistani cleric holed up in a mosque in Islamabad said on Thursday he and his student followers were willing to surrender, raising hopes of an end to a confrontation in which 19 people have died.
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Pakistani commandos blew holes in the walls of a mosque compound on Sunday in hope hundreds of women and children could escape, while security forces besieged a revolutionary cleric leading Islamist gunmen inside.
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Iraq&#39;s interim defence minister has given Shi&#39;ite rebels in Najaf hours to surrender or face being &quot;wiped out&quot;. The ultimatum is the latest in a series of threats by the US-backed government to the militia loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al Sadr.
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told Islamists besieged at an Islamabad mosque to surrender or be killed Saturday, amid claims that a bid to shoot down his plane was in revenge for the standoff.
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NAJAF, Iraq - An Iraqi Cabinet minister issued an ultimatum to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr Thursday, warning that Iraqi forces were poised to launch an offensive if he did not immediately disarm his militia and hand over its weapons.    The threat by Minister of State Qassim Dawoud came a day after the firebrand cleric agreed to a peace deal to end two weeks of fighting between U.S...
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Pakistani forces killed a rebel cleric and more than 50 Islamist militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in the compound of an Islamabad mosque to end a week-long siege.