Gunfire but no assault seen yet at Pakistan mosque
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Security forces fired tear gas and traded gunfire with Islamist militants in a Pakistani mosque compound on Monday, but there was no sign of an imminent assault a day after the government gave "a final warning" to surrender.
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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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Gunfire rang out around a besieged radical mosque in Pakistan's capital early Friday as Islamic militants holed up in the complex snubbed a plea from their captured leader to surrender.
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Nine people were shot dead on Tuesday  in clashes between Pakistani paramilitary forces and radical  Muslim students at an Islamabad mosque run by a Taliban-style  movement, officials said.
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Fears mounted that women and children were being used as human shields at a besieged mosque in Pakistan's capital on Thursday, as hundreds of militant students ignored a plea from their captured leader to surrender.
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A Pakistani paramilitary trooper and two students were killed when gunfire erupted during clashes on Tuesday at a mosque run by a Taliban-style movement in Islamabad, police and a hospital doctor said.
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A small mosque was destroyed by fire in the Netherlands on Saturday but no one was hurt in what police suspect may have been the latest in a spate of arson attacks against religious targets.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani security forces launched an operation last night against radical students holed up in an Islamabad mosque, seeking to end a monthslong standoff that has turned bloody in recent days.
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Pakistani troops Wednesday battled to flush out militants making a last stand inside Islamabad&#39;s Red Mosque after fighting that left at least 62 people dead, amid fears the toll could rise dramatically.
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Explosions and heavy gunfire stopped  Islamist politicians from entering a besieged Islamabad mosque  on Saturday, on a mission to persuade a radical cleric to send  out children among his hundreds of militant followers.
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Pakistani forces set off &quot;warning&quot; blasts and knocked down the door of a pro-Taliban mosque Thursday, prompting militants to hurl grenades and open fire as tension mounted in a two-day siege.
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Shooting broke out at a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad on Tuesday after students clashed with police deployed there. Students from the Lal Masjid mosque opened fire on the police and paramilitary rangers, who fired tear gas at crowds near the mosque, according to a photographer for The Associated Press.
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Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked Islamabad early on Saturday as Islamist students holed up in a mosque battled Pakistani security forces after the militants' leader defied government demands to surrender.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The tension long brewing around a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital burst into street battles yesterday between security forces and masked militants who challenged the government by mounting a vigilante anti-vice campaign.
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A Pakistani police officer examines the bloodstained spot after a bomb blast in a Shiite Muslim mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004.
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Suspected Islamic militants fired rockets at Pakistani paramilitary bases in tribal regions near Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Saturday. No one was reported injured.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Shooting broke out at a mosque in  the northern city of Mosul on Friday during a raid by U.S.  troops and Iraqi National Guards, witnesses said.