Siege on the Red Mosque
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Scores die as Pakistani government forces launch an attack on the occupied complex in Islamabad
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Government troops stormed the compound of Islamabad's Red Mosque before dawn today, prompting a fierce firefight with militants accused of holding scores of hostages, officials said. At least 40 rebels and three soldiers were killed.
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BAGHDAD  - Iraqi national guardsmen raided a Sunni mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, sparking bloody clashes, an AFP correspondent reported, while in the northern city of Mosul US-backed Iraqi commandos were poised to storm rebel strongholds.
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Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked a besieged Pakistani mosque early Friday after the government rejected a conditional surrender offer by a cleric it accused of using women and children as human shields.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 7 -- Positions hardened in the standoff at the Red Mosque on Saturday, as a peace effort collapsed amid a hail of gunfire and President Pervez Musharraf called on Islamic radicals hunkered down inside to surrender or face death.
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Pakistani security forces were readying for a final assault on the extremist Red Mosque Wednesday.
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Samarraâs Golden Mosque was hit by explosions Wednesday, prompting fears of an escalation in sectarian violence.
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US aircraft launched a fresh assault on Shi&#39;ite rebels in the embattled Iraqi city of Najaf early Sunday after talks on transferring control of the mosque at the center of a two-week siege ran into trouble.
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NAJAF, IraqâUS forces launched a fresh assault on Shiite rebels in the city of Najaf today after talks on transferring control of the mosque at the centre of a two-week siege ran into difficulties.
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Gunfire and explosions shook Islamabad's besieged Red Mosque Tuesday morning, minutes after government negotiators emerged empty handed from talks with militants accused of holding some 150 hostages inside.
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A radical cleric captured by security forces while fleeing in a womanâs burqa said that the nearly 1,000 followers still inside his government-besieged mosque in Pakistanâs capital should escape or surrender.
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US and Iraqi forces have raided seven mosques believed to be providing support for insurgents in the restive western city of Ramadi.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that incited insurgent violence.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 6 -- Pakistani security forces launched a major operation Thursday against radical students holed up in an Islamabad mosque, seeking to end a months-long standoff that has turned bloody in recent days.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The fate of scores of hostages was still not known late yesterday after elite Pakistani commandos fought their way room by room into a heavily fortified radical mosque , killing the chief cleric and more than 50 of his armed followers and arresting dozens more.
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Pakistani police early Saturday seized control of an Islamic seminary run by the clerics from the embattled Red Mosque, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 9 -- After saying for days that it would not negotiate with the radical cleric at the center of the Red Mosque siege, President Pervez Musharraf's government on Monday night sent a high-level delegation to the mosque's front gate for talks.