Pro-democracy Bahrain cleric dies
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One of the most prominent Shia clerics in Bahrain, Abdul Amir al-Jamri, dies at the age of 69.
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An elite Pakistani army commander was killed Sunday while leading an operation to demolish the perimeter walls of a mosque where an Islamic cleric and his followers have barricaded themselves for the past week.
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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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At least one Iraqi has been killed apparently heeding a top cleric&#39;s call to march to Najaf, where clashes go on between US-led forces and Shia militia.
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Yemeni forces killed anti-U.S. rebel  cleric Hussein al-Houthi and dozens of his supporters on  Friday, ending over two months of clashes in which over 200  rebels and troops have died.
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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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Thousands attend the funeral of a Pakistani cleric who died in controversial circumstances.
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One U.S. marine was killed in action in  the southern city of Najaf, the center of a two-week uprising  led by radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the U.S.  military said on Thursday.
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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim cleric and an associate were shot dead in southern Pakistan on Saturday, the latest attack in religious violence that has already killed more than 70 people this month.
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A doctor helping organise Afghan elections died on Monday along with four other civilians when an explosion tore through their vehicle, police said.
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An Afghan Islamic cleric who died in  custody in Pakistan on Wednesday had signs of torture on his  body, an intelligence official said.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 29 -- A Shiite cult leader, who claimed to be a revered Muslim figure who vanished in the 10th century, was killed Sunday along with scores of fighters who were poised to attack a holy city in southern Iraq and assassinate the country's Shiite religious leadership, Iraqi officials said...
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At least 10 supporters of Iraq's top Shi'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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Abu Laith al-Libbi, one of al-Qaida's top leaders in Afghanistan, has been killed, western intelligence officials say
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SAN&#39;A, Yemen - Yemen&#39;s Defense and Interior ministries announced the death of a rebel cleric who has led his followers in fierce battles with the government for more than two months, the country&#39;s official news agency reported Friday.
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An alleged top operative of al-Qaida in Lebanon arrested 10 days ago died of a heart attack on Monday, the Interior Ministry 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.