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A suspected U.S. missile strike killed 12 people in northwestern Pakistan, intelligence officials said — the latest in a spate of attacks close to the Afghan border that have squeezed al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Authorities in southeastern Iran on Tuesday hanged 13 members of a Sunni Muslim rebel group convicted of bombings and killings in the area, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday.
It seemed like a moment of reconciliation in this Gulf island nation's bitter sectarian divide, when Sunni Muslim rulers suddenly released a group of jailed Shiite activists. Shiites, who days before had been burning tires in protests, cheered in the streets.
Three people convicted of involvement in a mosque bombing in southeastern Iran that killed 25 were hanged Saturday, Iran's official news agency reported.
A Pakistani official says the government and the Taliban have agreed to a "permanent cease-fire" in the restive Swat Valley.
The two sides squared off in a brightly patterned tent big enough to hold about 100 angry Sunni Muslim clan chiefs, the Shiite Muslim police chief, two Shiite government officials and — overseeing all — one frustrated senior U.S. Army officer.
A translation of the Arabic-language prayer call heard five times a day in Morocco, an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim nation:
Syria's grand mufti, the country's top Sunni Muslim religious authority, says he would like to meet Pope Benedict XVI and persuade him to visit Syria.
Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political bloc ended a nearly yearlong boycott of the Shiite-led government Saturday in another step toward healing the sectarian rifts that once brought almost daily bloodshed.
A U.S. helicopter strike north of Baghdad killed eight civilians, including several children, an Iraqi police official said Thursday. The U.S. military said the assault targeted al-Qaida fighters but acknowledged that children died.
Thousands of worshippers gathered Saturday for the consecration of Qatar's first Christian church, ending decades of underground worship in this Sunni Muslim and deeply conservative Persian Gulf nation.
One of Iraq's most powerful Shiite political and religious figures on Friday issued a stunning call for the government to set aside differences with Sunni Muslim politicians and entice them back to help lead the country.
Iraqi authorities seized the headquarters of the country's most influential Sunni clerical group Wednesday, sealing off its west Baghdad compound and accusing the organization of supporting al-Qaida in Iraq.
One of South Asia's most influential Sunni Muslim seminaries has issued a religious edict against teaching girls and boys at the same schools past age 10, claiming it is against Islamic law, an official said Sunday.
Thousands of mostly Sunni Muslim protesters marched through Jordan's capital Friday, condemning Saddam Hussein's execution and lashing out at American and Shiite Muslim influence in the Arab world.
In a Jan. 1 story about Sunni demonstrators breaking into the Golden Dome mosque in Samarra as part of a protest of the execution of Saddam Hussein, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the protesters broke the locks off the door of the damaged Shiite shrine and forcibly entered. Iraqi police now say demonstrators were allowed to enter the shrine through a side door after threatening violence.
Youths rioted in this southern city for a second straight day Wednesday to protest a suicide bombing that killed 56 people, which a top Pakistani official said was aimed at "eliminating" the leadership of a moderate Sunni Muslim group.
About 100 masked gunmen stormed a jail near the Iranian border at dawn Tuesday — cutting phone wires, firing rocket-propelled grenades and killing 20 security men — in an operation that freed 18 fellow insurgents who had been captured in police raids just two days earlier.
Residents reported curious declarations hanging from mosque walls and market stalls recently in Ramadi, the Sunni Muslim insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad. The fliers said Iraqi militants had turned on and were killing foreign al-Qaida fighters, their one-time allies.
Shiite politicians failed Saturday to select a new prime minister as rivalry within their alliance forced a delay in the balloting. An Iraqi army spokesman was assassinated in Basra, a southern city plagued by lawlessness and violence by Shiite militias.
A car bomb killed at least eight people Friday outside a Sunni mosque in Baghdad and gunmen abducted a Sunni cleric, raising sectarian tensions as the election commission gave the final go-ahead for talks to begin in earnest on a new government.
Iran threatens legal action over U.S. detentionsTEHRAN - Iran threatened the United States on Sunday with possible legal action for detaining five of its officials for up to 30 months in Iraq.
Al-Qaida accuses Iraqi insurgent group of betraying Islam"An al-Qaida front group lashed out Sunday at a key nationalist Sunni Muslim insurgent faction in a rare criticism of a follow rebel group, accusing it of betraying religion by joining the US forces in their fight against al-Qaida."
Overview: Petraeus 1st Day Testimony from Top Pundits + McClatchy Report on InconsistenciesOn the anniversary of 9-11, the effort to parse the General Petraeus' first day testimony results in a troubled and frustrated conclusion: The deaths from 9-11 have not gone punished.
Despite Iraq reports, our troops' future is already setNo matter what Army Gen. David Petraeus tells Congress about the surge in Iraq on Monday, the course for U.S. troops there is already set: Next April, the 30,000 troops who were added this year will begin coming home.
Death toll from Iraq bombings likely to be worst of warOfficials said Wednesday that as many as 500 people probably died in a series of coordinated truck bombings that devastated two northern Iraqi villages Tuesday and set a record for mass carnage in war-torn Iraq
17 Year Old Girl Stoned To Death In IraqA slender, black-haired girl is dragged in a headlock through a braying mob of men. Within seconds, she is on the ground in a fetal position, covering her head with her arms in a futile attempt to fend off a shower of stones.
Kurdish girl stoned to death, mob films it on cameraphonesCellphone videos that depict a teenage girl being stoned to death by a crowd surfaced online last week.
Human Rights Watch Hates America?A group located here in America just announced its condemnation of the verdict finding Saddam Hussein guilty. The rationale given was that the trial wasn't conducted fairly. Whatever.
Between the Death Squads and a Hard PlaceAlmost 150 people were killed Thursday afternoon in attacks on predominantly Shia Sadr City, in the capital of Iraq, Baghdad, Thursday afternoon.
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