Tag: Mosque

Jewish extremists on Wednesday tried to torch an old mosque in Jerusalem, as Israel reopened a controversial ramp leading to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound,...

A suicide bomber on Friday attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least six people including a district police chief, a government official...

While people are criticising the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for showing indifferent attitude towards maintenance of infrastructure and facilities like roads and parks, the...

Clearly unaware of, or nonchalant, about the culture and practices of Muslims in Pakistan, a US solider who was accompanying US Ambassador Cameron Munter,...

Men gathered Monday at Baghdad’s biggest Sunni mosque for the funeral of one of at least 28 people, including a lawmaker, killed in a...

As Muslims are observing Juma-tul-Wida today (Friday) with religious reverence, comprehensive security measures have been adopted for the last Friday prayers of the Holy...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday said the United States strongly condemned Friday’s suicide attack at a mosque in Jamrud that killed...

The death toll in the Jamrud mosque blast increased to 56 on Saturday, as the funerals of the victims continued in Ghundai and other...

More than 50 people were killed and around 120 others injured when a high-intensity bomb ripped through worshippers offering Friday prayers at a mosque...

At least 56 people were killed and 123 injured in a suicide attack inside Mandokhel Masjid in the Jamrud area of Khyber Agency, private...

Around 1,500 muslims in Rawalpindi and Islamabad will sit for aitkaf at Faisal Mosque starting from the 20th of Ramazan (August 21, Sunday). The mosque...

Shortly before 10:00 pm the sun finally sets on Oslo, allowing Muslims gathered at the Minhal-ul-Quran mosque to break the first day of fasting...

Foreign Minister Hina Khar visited a revered shrine in India on Thursday where she reportedly prayed to further improve ties in nuclear-armed South Asia. The...

A roadside bomb in Iraq targeting worshippers at a mosque on Friday killed 15 people and injured 61 in Tikrit, hometown of former dictator...

A bomb placed outside a mosque frequented by provincial officials in the Iraqi city of Tikrit killed 17 people and wounded 50 after the...

KANO - Christian youths burnt a mosque in Nigeria's north early Tuesday after deadly rioting that followed presidential elections, prompting Muslims to destroy shops in response, residents said.
The reprisal attacks occurred in Nigeria's main northern city of Kano, where an unspecified number of people were killed the previous day as post-election rioting spread to some 14 states over President Goodluck Jonathan's election win.
Kano police spokesman Magaji Majia confirmed

JAKARTA - A suicide bomber wounded at least 26 people when he struck a prayer room in an Indonesian police compound in the first suicide attack on a mosque in the country, police said. The bomber began the Friday prayers along with other worshippers, and was killed immediately in the explosion at around 12:15 pm (0515 GMT) at police headquarters in the city of Cirebon, West Java province, they said.
The blast appeared to mark a return of major terror attacks to Indonesia after