Wave of attacks kill 70 people in Iraq

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 01:31

Baghdad: A double car bombing and a shooting killed 34 Shiite Muslims on pilgrimage in Iraq on Monday, the deadliest in a wave of attacks across the country that left at least 70 dead. It was the bloodiest day of violence in nearly two months.

Sectarian clashes kill at least 40 in Yemen

Last Updated: Friday, December 13, 2013, 04:51

Ultraconservative Sunni Muslim militants and rebels belonging to a branch of Shiite Islam battled each other in northern Yemen.

Car bombs and roadside bombings kill 21 in Iraq

Last Updated: Monday, December 9, 2013, 20:56

A series of attacks, including a car bomb outside a cafe, killed at least 21 people in Iraq today, officials said.

Car bombs and roadside bombings kill 21 in Iraq

Last Updated: Monday, December 9, 2013, 17:42

A series of attacks, including a car bomb outside a cafe, killed at least 21 people in Iraq today, officials said.

Pakistan Sunni clerics want only death penalty for blasphemers

Last Updated: Sunday, December 8, 2013, 16:58

Pakistan should abolish life imprisonment and award only death penalty on those who commit blasphemy, 150 Sunni clerics have demanded.

Pakistani right-wing group protests killing of leader

Last Updated: Sunday, December 8, 2013, 00:40

Activists of the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) on Saturday staged protests in parts of Pakistan`s Punjab province against the killing of a top leader of the right-wing Sunni group.

Pak Shias protest leader`s killing; 17 dead in unrest so far

Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 00:25

Hundreds of Shias turned out for the funeral of a prominent scholar whose murder sparked off a bout of violence in which 17 people have been killed in the last 24 hours in Pakistan`s largest city.

Assault on office, other attacks kill 19 in Iraq

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 21:10

Insurgents assaulted a mayor`s office in a Sunni town just north of Baghdad on Tuesday, one of several attacks across Iraq that killed 19 people, said officials.

Iraq gunmen kill Sunni fighter, 5 relatives

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 10:09

Gunmen broke into the home of a Sunni anti-al Qaeda fighter in a village north of Baghdad today and killed him and his entire family, a total of six people, Iraqi officials said.

28 killed in Iraq bloodshed after deadly month

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 09:45

Attacks in Iraq including a suicide bomb at a funeral killed 28 people today as figures showed nearly 950 died last month in spiralling violence despite ramped up security measures.

Sectarian clashes in northern Lebanese city kill 8

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 00:30

Lebanon`s state news agency says clashes between supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad and opponents killed eight people in the northern city of Tripoli over the weekend.