'Foreign fighters' in Red Mosque
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A Pakistani minister says wanted militants, including some from abroad, are inside a besieged Islamabad mosque.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fighters loyal to rebel cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr were firmly in control of Najaf's Imam Ali  mosque on Saturday, defying efforts by Iraq's U.S.-backed  government to end a radical Shi'ite rebellion.
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Iraqi forces backed by US troops left a mosque they were raiding for suspected insurgents in Mosul on Friday after coming under fire, witnesses said.
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NAJAF - A senior commander of Shia militants holed up inside a Najaf shrine said the wall of the mosque was hit by US fire last night.
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storm the Hanifa mosque. Witnesses said worshippers threw shoes at the troops -- a grave insult in Islam -- and soldiers. forces despite a bloody rout of insurgents in the Sunni Muslim bastion of Falluja.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon -- Surrounded in the first hours of their battle with Lebanese forces in this northern Lebanese city, fighters of the Fatah al-Islam group shouted desperately from the windows of their hideouts. "God is great!" one resident, housewife Aziza Ahmed, recalled the fighters yelling....
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Pakistani security forces fired a series of "warning blasts" before dawn near Islamabad's radical Red Mosque on Thursday, stepping up pressure on hundreds of militant students inside to surrender, a security official said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Shi'ite fighters appeared  still to be in control of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city  Najaf early on Saturday, but the whereabouts of their leader,  the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, were unknown.
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Some attacks targeting nonmilitary foreigners in Kabul, Afghanistan:
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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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President Pervez Musharraf's decision to have the army storm the Red Mosque may strengthen the U.S.-allied leader's hand among Pakistanis dismayed at how Islamic militants used the holy site as a fortress.
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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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Gunfire and explosions shook Islamabad's besieged Red Mosque Tuesday morning, minutes after government negotiators emerged empty handed from talks with militants accused of holding some 150 hostages inside.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 8 -- Positions hardened in the standoff at the pro-Taliban 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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US and Iraqi forces have raided mosques in a western rebel stronghold, after US warplanes flattened a popular restaurant in another town overnight.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands  - A mosque in the southeastern village of Helden, near the German border, was gutted by a pre-dawn fire Saturday in what appeared to be the latest attack on an Islamic site since the killing of a Dutch filmmaker nearly two weeks ago.
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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.