Gunmen attack Shiite mosque in Iraq
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Gunmen attacked the only Shiite mosque in a town northeast of Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding three, police said Tuesday.
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The bombing near a Shiite mosque in Diyala on Tuesday, provoked Shiite militiamen to use mortars against a nearby Sunni village in retaliation.
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A suspected suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a Shiite mosque in  the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar late Thursday
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fierce fighting broke out around a  shrine in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf Monday, and pieces of  shrapnel landed in the courtyard of the mosque held by  followers of a radical Shi'ite cleric, Reuters witnesses said.
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A truck bomber attacked a revered Shiite shrine in the heart of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 78 people and wounding more than 200 in a resumption of Iraq's relentless sectarian slaughter. The mosque's turquoise dome survived, but the blast buried some worshippers and badly burned others.
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Militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine that had already been badly damaged in a 2006 attack, Shi'ite officials said.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Gunmen attacked two churches in the  tense northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday, in the latest  violence directed against one of Iraq's several religious and  ethnic groups, witnesses said.
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Three Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and burned by unidentified gunmen south of Baghdad early on Thursday, police said, a day after suspected al Qaeda militants blew up the minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque.
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A suicide car bomber killed 14 Shi'ite  worshippers as they left a Baghdad mosque on Friday, a Muslim  holy day, ratcheting up tension between's Iraq's religious  communities just nine days before landmark elections.
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Gunmen fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at Iraqi security forces in downtown Baghdad Sunday while a suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. military convoy in the volatile Anbar province, the military said. No American or Iraqi casualties were reported.
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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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Insurgents in Iraq today blew up the two minarets of Samarra's al-Askari mosque, one of Shia Islam's most revered sites.
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Insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque at U.S. troops in northern Iraq on Sunday, prompting fighting that left two attackers dead and 34 civilians wounded, the military said.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants on Wednesday blew up the minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra, target of a 2006 bomb attack that unleashed a tidal wave of sectarian violence.
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Gunmen shot and killed 10 Shiites on Thursday after pulling them off a bus in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, police said.
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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
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One of Iraqâs most sacred Shiite shrines, the Imam al-Askari mosque in Samarra, was attacked and severely damaged again today, just over a year after the previous attack on the site unleashed a tide of national sectarian bloodletting.