Pakistan shrine clashes kill 17
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Clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslims over a shrine in north-west Pakistan kill at least 17, officials say.
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A suicide bomber Saturday killed 18 troops after this week&#39;s deadly raid on a hardline mosque, as Pakistan&#39;s embattled military leader also faced pressure from pro-democracy protesters.
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Pakistani troops in armoured vehicles enforced a shoot-on-sight curfew around a pro-Taliban mosque in Islamabad on Wednesday after clashes with radical students left at least 16 people dead.
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Pakistan's army says it has found 73 bodies at a mosque compound in Islamabad, after battles with militants.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  -- Security forces clashed with militants Tuesday outside a radical mosque where students have carried out a string of kidnappings of police officers and alleged prostitutes, killing five people, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 18 -- The Pakistani army fought pitched battles with militants Wednesday in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan following an insurgent assault that killed 17 troops.
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Militant supporters of radical Iraqi Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr kept their hold on a sacred religious shrine Sunday as fighting flared around the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad.
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President Pervez Musharraf's government said Wednesday that militants accounted for most of the 106 people killed in eight days of fighting around the Red Mosque, calling it a signal that Islamic extremism won't be tolerated in Pakistan.
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Fighting between rival Palestinian factions escalated across Gaza on Friday, killing at least 17 people, as Hamas Islamists overran compounds used by President Mahmoud Abbas's forces and two universities were set ablaze.
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A Pakistani paramilitary trooper was shot dead and seven students were wounded during clashes at a mosque run by a Taliban-style movement in Islamabad on Tuesday.
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A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 22 worshippers at a mosque in eastern Pakistan yesterday in the latest round of sectarian killings between Sunni and Shia Muslim groups.
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Up to 17 people are killed in clashes between police and demonstrators in eastern Sudan.
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A battle to end a standoff at a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, left 8 security officers and 50 religious militants, including their ringleader, dead.
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A seven-hour gun battle between suspected Islamic militants and police in northwest Pakistan Saturday left three extremists and two policemen dead, officials said.
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Seventeen people, including three policemen, have been killed in violent protests in Pakistan over the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, police and a provincial government minister said on Friday.
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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A speeding bus packed with passengers fell into a deep ravine in eastern Pakistan early Saturday, killing 17 people and injuring 30, police and hospital officials said.