Iraqi PM orders curfew in Karbala
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Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki imposes a curfew in Karbala after fierce fighting on Tuesday kills more than 50 people.
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KARBALA, Iraq, Dec 20  - A bomb exploded Monday on the western outskirts of Karbala, causing no casualties, Iraqi police said, one day after car bombs in Karbala and in its sister shrine city of Najaf killed 66 people.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after a fierce gunbattle between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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The Iraqi government declares an immediate curfew in the capital, affecting both vehicles and people.
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PARACHINAR, Pakistan  - Authorities imposed a curfew in a northwestern Pakistani town on Sunday a day after a suicide bomber attacked supporters of assassinated prime minister Benazir Bhutto killing 39 people, an official said.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has given the go-ahead for a US-led attack on the rebel stronghold of Falluja. Allawi announced a curfew in Falluja and Ramadi from 1800 local time
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Baghdad endured a third day under curfew on Sunday as the government sought to keep on a lid on seething anger that has killed hundreds in the past three days.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki condemned a U.S. raid Saturday in Baghdad's Shiite Sadr City slum &#151; a politically sensitive district for him &#151; in which American troops searching for Iranian-linked militants sparked a firefight the U.S. said left 26 Iraqis dead.
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The Iraqi government declares an immediate curfew in the capital, affecting both vehicles and pedestrians.
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Iraq's Shiite prime minister said Friday hard-line Sunni clerics outside Iraq share the blame for this week's bloodshed at a Shiite religious festival in Karbala because they issued religious decrees terming Shiites heretics.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister warned Monday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war and derail elections, as thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs
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Iraqi police order hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims to leave Karbala after heavy gunfire breaks out.
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KATMANDU: A shoot-on-sight curfew imposed in Kathmandu to prevent riots and violent protests over the killing of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq entered its third day on Friday, as officials said they were trying to recover hostagesâ bodies.
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Iraq announced plans on Tuesday to close its borders with Iran and Syria and lengthen a night curfew on vehicles in new emergency measures to try to curb unrelenting violence in Baghdad.
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Iraq's interim prime minister warned Monday that insurgents are trying to foment sectarian civil war as well as derail elections, while thousands of mourners turned out for funerals in the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala a day after car bombs killed 67 people.
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Iraqi police order hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims to leave Karbala after fighting breaks out.
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KATHMANDU, SEPT 1: An indefinite curfew was imposed on Wednesday in the Nepalese capital after protests broke out following the gruesome killing of 12 Nepali hostages in Iraq.