Two Britons killed on Hajj pilgrimage
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Two Britons were among three people killed when a coach carrying Hajj pilgrims crashed in Saudi Arabia, said the Foreign Office.A further 34 people were injured, with 28 still in hospital - some in a serious ...Comment
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Up to 90 Shia pilgrims are killed and dozens wounded in a double suicide bombing in central Iraq, police say.
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Two employees of a British charity were killed in Sudan's troubled Darfur region on Sunday when their convoy came under fire, the aid agency said on Monday.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Saudi Arabia vowed to maintain the safety of over 2 million Muslims performing haj pilgrimage next week, citing new procedures at a bridge where hundreds have died before in stampedes.
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Two British soldiers were killed when their convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, a British military spokesman said.
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KARACHI: Two Sunni clerics were killed in an ambush on their van as they went to a mosque for Maghrib prayers on Saturday, police said.
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Pilgrims carry out one of the Hajj's final rituals, as a top Saudi cleric warns them to shun militant forms of Islam.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims reached the plain of Arafat east of Mecca on Monday, the vanguard of a throng expected to peak at more than 2 million people by Tuesday, the climax of the haj pilgrimage.
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Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday killed two people and wounded five others who were taking part in what appeared to be a peaceful demonstration supporting radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Kufa, northeast of Najaf, witnesses and hospital officials said.
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MENA, Saudi Arabia  - Haj pilgrims pelted stones  at symbols of the devil on Friday, with many saying they were  targeting President Bush and other world leaders seen as  oppressing Muslims.
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A BRITON was shot dead by suspected Muslim militants in the car park of a shopping centre in Riyadh yesterday. The gunmen, driving past in a car, shot the man twice in the chest and twice in the head in a suburb of the Saudi capital.
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BAGHDAD, March 6 -- Inside the tent of Ali Abbas in the central city of Hilla, Shiite men beat their chests in a feverish rhythm on Tuesday. The pilgrims were mourning the death of Imam Hussein, the  prophet Muhammad's grandson who was slain with his family in 681. They had walked dozens of miles,...
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A coach crash in Saudi Arabia leaves two British pilgrims dead and and many others injured.
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Two British soldiers were killed today while on patrol in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence said.
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Two boys are knocked down and killed while walking along the M56 motorway in Cheshire.
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British doctors are warning Muslims preparing to go on the Hajj of considerable health risks involved.
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HILLA, Iraq  - Insurgents killed 82 Shi'ite pilgrims walking to the holy city of Kerbala in attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, police said.