Mosques Hit After Shrine Attack
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BAGHDAD, June 14 -- At least 13 Sunni mosques came under attack in Iraq the day after bombers struck a revered Shiite shrine for a second time, but the violence did not escalate into the open sectarian warfare that many people in Iraq had feared.
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Suicide car bombers struck in the Iraqi Shia holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala yesterday, killing more than 60 people and injuring about 130 in a day of carnage ahead of next month&#39;s general election.
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A series of bombings damaged five churches in the capital early Saturday, and mortars later struck near a hospital and a hotel used by foreign news organizations and diplomats, Iraqi officials said.
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In a second attack, also shortly after 6 am, a car bomb shattered the wail of dawn prayers at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Azamiyah, a mainly Sunni Muslim neighborhood where sectarian passions already were inflamed.
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[World News] Najaf, Aug 26 : At least 25 people were killed and over 60 wounded when mortars slammed into a mosque where thousands of supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had gathered in the southern Iraqi town of Kufa Thursday, Xinhua reports
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Mass mourning for victims of a suicide attack on a Shi&#39;ite mosque that killed 31 people dissolved into violence as youths rampaged through this eastern Pakistan city for a second day, burning a police station and the mayor&#39;s office.
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: A suicide car bomber ploughed into a Shia mosque in Baghdad after dawn prayers today, killing 14 people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed.
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Car bombings shook the streets leading to Baghdad's most revered Shiite Muslim shrine on Wednesday, and police reported at least seven people killed and 27 others wounded.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 -- A series of bombings damaged five churches in the capital early Saturday, and mortars later struck near a hospital and a hotel used by foreign news organizations and diplomats, Iraqi officials said. One person was reported killed and at least three wounded in the hospital attack.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Car bombs ripped through the Iraqi Shiite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf near major religious shrines, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 100.
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An explosion on Wednesday hit a revered Shi'ite shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra that had been badly damaged in February 2006, senior Shi'ite officials and one witness said.
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At least 67 people were killed and many injured when a car bomb hit the Iraqi holy cities of Karbala and Najaf on Sunday. In Najaf, at least 51 people were killed when a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle
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The attacks were days ahead of a planned march of devout Shiites through Sunni heartlands to the remnants of a revered shrine.
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Mosques, Islamic schools and churches have been targeted in an escalation of religious violence in the Netherlands. The death of controversial film-maker Theo van Gogh earlier this month sparked off a spate of attacks across the country.
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Two bombs exploded at a religious gathering in Pakistan early Thursday, killing at least 39 people and injuring over 100, police.(Xinhua/AFP Photo).
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A blast in a Shiite Muslim mosque in eastern Pakistan on Friday killed at least 15 people and left dozens injured. The blast occurred when the Friday prayers were on at the Mistri Abdullah Imambargah mosque in Sialkot.
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Three Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and burned by unidentified gunmen south of Baghdad early on Thursday, police said, a day after suspected al Qaeda militants blew up the minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque.