Second Sunni Cleric Gunned Down in Iraq
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim  cleric in the city of Miqdadiya Tuesday, the second such  killing in Iraq in as many days, witnesses and hospital  officials said.
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Gunmen have killed the representative of Iraq's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric along with his son and four bodyguards in a town south of Baghdad, an official in the cleric's office said Thursday.
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At least 10 supporters of Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric were shot dead in Najaf Thursday when gunmen opened fire at police who were trying to control the crowd, prompting the police to return fire, witnesses said.
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed a second American captive in  Iraq after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline on Tuesday, Arabic  television channel Al Jazeera said.
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The killing of two Sunni clerics could be part of a slide toward sectarian civil war, analysts say.
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A VIDEO posted on an Islamist website today shows Jack Hensley, the second US hostage to be slaughtered by an al-Qaeda linked group in Iraq, being decapitated.
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The cleric leading resistance at a mosque stormed by Pakistani troops is killed, officials say.
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Gunmen on Monday assassinated a member of an influential Sunni clerics' group that has called for a boycott of national elections, just a day after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in Iraq.
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A SENIOR cleric belonging to a Pakistani extremist party was killed today when a man shot him as he answered his door, police and party officials said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Supporters of Iraq's top Shi'ite  cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani were fired upon in the  town of Kufa on Thursday and 20 people were killed, a Reuters  photographer said from the scene.
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people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed. In a second dawn attack in the capital on Friday, guerrillas killed at
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Iraqi security forces arrested two Sunni clerics and more than a dozen of followers in two separate raids on mosques south of Baghdad, a Muslim cleric's group said Saturday.
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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 killed an Iraqi intelligence officer in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, one of several deadly shootings targeting security forces on Sunday.
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A representative of Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric is assassinated along with four bodyguards and his son.
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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim cleric has been shot dead in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Mufti Mohammed Jamil was reported to have been on his way home when two gunmen on a motorcycle stopped his car and opened fire with automatic weapons.
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Iraqi security forces fired on demonstrators loyal to rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the Iraqi capital yesterday, killing two in a clash