Tag: mosque
Taliban pledge to step up security as Shi’ite victims buried in...
Taliban authorities pledged to step up security at Shi'ite mosques as hundreds of people gathered on Saturday to bury the victims of the second...
Burkina Faso mosque attacked
Gunmen killed about 15 people in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso during prayers on Friday, a security source and a...
New Zealand mosque shootings shock the world
At least one gunman killed 49 people and wounded more than 20 during Friday prayers at two New Zealand mosques in the country’s worst...
Suicide bombing at Kabul mosque
Thirty-nine people were killed in a suicide bombing of a Shi'ite mosque in eastern Afghanistan, and the death toll may climb further,...
Western Cape mosque attacker had no link to extremism
The person who killed two worshippers at a South African mosque last month was a psychiatric patient with no link to extremism,...
Two killed on attack on Western Cape mosque
Two people were stabbed to death at a mosque in South Africa's Malmesbury in Western Cape before the attacker was shot and...
Niger mosque attacked
Three suicide bombers killed 10 people at a mosque in Niger's south-eastern city Diffa who gathered after breaking the Ramadan fast, an...
Explosive device found at Durban mosque
A device discovered in a mosque near Durban where worshippers were attacked by armed men last week was confirmed as explosive, police...
Extremism element in mosque attack probed
South Africa's elite police unit took over investigation of a mosque attack near Durban which killed one person because "extremism" is suspected...
Durban mosque attack – one killed
Three men armed with guns and knives slit the throats of three worshippers at a mosque near Durban in South Africa and...
At least 27 dead in Nigerian mosque blast
Explosions in and around a mosque in north-east Nigeria killed at least 27 people, a hospital official said, in the latest attack...
Benghazi mosque bombing kills two, wounds 75
Two people died and 75 were wounded in a twin bombing inside a mosque in Benghazi, medics said.
Two weeks ago about 35...
Egypt attack victims go back to Sinai mosque to mourn and...
People wounded in an attack on a mosque in Egypt's North Sinai region that killed more than 230 returned to pray and...
Islamic State raises stakes with Egyptian mosque attack
The mosque was packed with hundreds of worshippers for Friday prayers in Egypt's North Sinai when gunmen in military-style uniforms and masks...
Over 230 killed in Sinai mosque attack
Militants killed more than 230 people at a mosque in North Sinai, detonating a bomb and gunning down fleeing worshippers in the...
Fifty killed in Nigeria mosque suicide bombing
A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people at a mosque in north-eastern Nigeria, the biggest mass killing this year in a...
Five killed by Cameroon suicide bomber
A girl with a bomb strapped to her walked into a mosque in northern Cameroon where it exploded, killing five worshippers in...
Blast at Benghazi mosque
A blast hit worshippers leaving a mosque in the east Libyan city of Benghazi, apparently targeting a key tribal ally of eastern...
Capture of Mosul mosque signal end of caliphate
After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops captured the ruined mosque at the heart of Islamic State's de facto...
Iraqi forces pushing hard toward Old City in Mosul
Iraqi forces on Tuesday pushed towards the river side of Mosul's Old City, their key target in the eight-month campaign to capture...
Christian militia renews attack on UN CAR base
Militia fighters from Central African Republic's (CAR) Christian minority attacked a UN base for the second consecutive night, a U.N. official said,...
Hostages held in Central African Republic mosque freed
About 1,000 people held hostage since the weekend by armed militias in a mosque amid violent clashes in south-eastern Central African Republic...
Hand grenade blast at mosque in Addis Ababa injures at least...
A hand grenade was hurled at a mosque in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Friday and the blast injured at...
Islamic State suicide bomber kills 27, wounds 227 in Kuwait mosque
A suicide bomber killed 27 people when he blew himself up inside a packed Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday...
Kenyan police shoot dead man and make arrests in mosque raids
Kenyan police shot dead one man and arrested about 250 others when they searched two mosques in the city of Mombasa that...
Youths pillage mosque in Central African Republic protest over church attack
Youths in the Central African Republic plundered a mosque in the capital and barricaded streets with burning tyres on Thursday in protest...
Israel arrests second mosque arson suspect
Israeli police Sunday said they arrested a second suspect following an arson attack on a mosque blamed on a pro-settler militant group,...
