Pakistani forces secure rebel mosque complex
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Pakistani security forces secured a mosque and school complex in Islamabad on Wednesday, snuffing out the last pockets of resistance a day after an assault that killed a rebel cleric and more than 50 militants.
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Pakistani troops cornered holdout Islamic militants and combed the warren-like Red Mosque complex for booby traps Wednesday after assaulting the compound and killing its pro-Taliban cleric, the army spokesman said.
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Pakistani forces launched an  operation on Tuesday to clear militants from a mosque compound  after talks to end a week-long standoff broke down, the  military said.
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The army is deployed in the north-eastern city of Sialkot to quell rioting following Friday's mosque attack.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound in the capital on Tuesday to clear it of militants after talks to end a week-long standoff broke down.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fighters loyal to rebel Shi'ite  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were firmly in control of Najaf's Imam  Ali mosque on Saturday, giving the lie to government claims  that police had taken control of the shrine.
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Troops cornered the last remaining militants in the Red Mosque complex after an assault on the compound that began Tuesday, a spokesman said.
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Pakistani forces stormed a mosque compound in the capital on Tuesday after talks to end a week-long standoff with militants broke down. Initial reports put casualties at 26 killed and many wounded.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 6 -- Security forces ringing a besieged mosque pummeled Islamic radicals with gunfire on Friday, as concern grew that many of those still inside -- including children -- were being held against their will.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- About 36 hours after they stormed the Red Mosque in a blaze of gunfire, Pakistani security forces yesterday killed the last remaining radicals and took on the grim task of recovering the casualties of a fierce, close-combat battle that left more than 80 people dead.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Shi'ite fighters appeared to be in  control of a holy shrine in Najaf Friday, hours after Iraq's  interim government said it had overcome a bloody uprising by  seizing the Imam Ali mosque without a shot being fired.
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Pakistani commandos raided the compound of a mosque on Sunday where militants are holding out, blasting holes in a perimeter wall in the hope hundreds of women and children can escape, the military said.
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The Pakistani military pounded an extremist stronghold where a rebel leader blamed for the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is believed to be hiding
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Pakistani troops have taken over the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, after a hard core of militant students held hundreds of hostages in the Islamabad compound.
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Pakistani forces killed a rebel Islamist leader and more than 50 of his militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in a Islamabad mosque compound at the climax of a week-long siege.
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Pakistani authorities issued a &quot;last  warning&quot; on Sunday to a rebel Islamist cleric and his fighters  holed up in an Islamabad mosque, as speculation mounted  security forces would launch a full-scale assault.
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Pakistani troops sealed off the area around a mosque in the capital and imposed a 24-hour curfew on Wednesday after 11 people were killed in clashes between security forces and militant Islamic students.