KHOST, Afghanistan — The United States knows where to find the most feared insurgent family in the Afghanistan war. Troops can point to the downtown Khost mansion owned by its patriarch, Jalaluddin Haqqani; the million-dollar blue-tile mosque he built for the city’s residents; and his base of operations 20 miles away in Pakistan. They are aware of his trucking and warehouse businesses, his sons who command about 3,000 fighters, and their sophisticated training camps that conduct courses in withstanding interrogation and firing rockets across borders. Read full article > >

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Haqqani insurgent group proves resilient foe in Afghan war

India’s Supreme Court suspends an earlier ruling from a lower court about the fate of the Ayodhya holy site, where Hindu zealots destroyed a mosque 18 years ago.

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Only minutes before, the vast expanses of the Ibn Tulun mosque, one of the largest in the world, had been packed with Muslims — praying, listening to the Friday sermon, observing the most important religious duty of the week. Now they had filed out into the winding, cacophonous streets of Cairo, and we stood alone, quiet and awed, with more than 1,000 years of time entirely to ourselves.

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Egypt calls: Empty of tourists, full of bargains, praying for traveler’s return

A religious leader in Indian-administered Kashmir is killed by a bomb outside a mosque in Srinagar, officials say.

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An Afghan mob infuriated by a Florida pastor’s burning of a Koran last month stormed United Nations offices and killed up to 20 staff members, beheading two of them. After noon prayers, hundreds of demonstrators poured out of mosques and headed to the…

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At least six people were reported killed when Syrian security forces attacked protesters who had taken refuge in a mosque in the center of the southern city of Dara’a.

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Six Protesters Killed in Syria

A Muslim cleric who sexually assaulted two boys at a mosque in Stoke-on-Trent has been sentenced to 16 years in jail.

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — For most of their lives, Gul and Razziq slept under the same dusty blankets on the same dirt floors. They toiled side by side in the same potato fields and prayed in the same mosque, two poor brothers in a forgotten corner of the Afghanistan war.

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War pulls apart Afghan families

A bomb attack on a mosque in north-western Pakistan has killed at least nine people, police say.

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Pakistan mosque bomb ‘kills nine’

Thousands of mourners gather at a mosque in Istanbul for the funeral of Turkey’s first Islamist prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan.

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Mass funeral for Turkish Islamist

Now that Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi violently beat back protesters from his Tripoli stronghold, firing on citizens who had taken to the streets after praying at mosques, he’s apparently arming civilian supporters to set up checkpoints and patrol…

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Tripoli is once again in chaos as militias loyal to Muammar Gaddafi opened fire on protesters as they streamed out of mosques after Friday prayers. Text messages circled around the capital urging residents to return to the streets, which they have been…

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Gaddafi Militias Fire on Tripoli Demonstrators

A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of Shiite pilgrims outside mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday, killing 24 and wounding 28. The bomber detonated himself in the middle of a group of about 200 people, many of whom were Shiite pilgrims who…

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Suicide Bomber Kills 24 at Iraq Mosque

WESTBURY, N.Y. – They called it a summit to teach Muslims how to fight prejudice and fear. But all day long, fear was inescapable in the fluorescent-lit meeting hall of the Long Island mosque.

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Hearings on Muslims trigger panic

WESTBURY, N.Y. – They called it a summit to teach Muslims how to fight prejudice and fear. But all day long, fear was inescapable in the fluorescent-lit meeting hall of the Long Island mosque.

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Hearings on Muslims trigger panic