Baghdad: Bomb blasts in Baghdad killed at least 20 more people on Friday at the end of a week of bloodshed that prompted a United Nations envoy to warn Iraq was "at a crossroads".
More than 160 people have been killed since Tuesday, when troops stormed a Sunni protest camp near Kirkuk, triggering clashes that quickly spread to other Sunni areas in western and northern provinces.
Although well below the heights of 2006-7, this week's violence was the most widespread since US troops pulled out of Iraq in December 2011. Militant attacks have increased this year as Iraq's fragile ethnic and sectarian balance comes under growing strain from the civil war in neighbouring Syria.
In and around Baghdad, eight people including a soldier were killed in a series of bomb blasts outside mostly Sunni mosques....
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06:41 AM, Apr 27, 2013
New York: A group of eight Muslims has filed a federal lawsuit against the New York City Police Department demanding that it bring an end to its surveillance practice initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks of spying on mosques and businesses managed by the community. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in New Jersey near New York, is the first major legal challenge to NYPD's...
11:51 PM, Jun 06, 2012
New York: The New York Police Department targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved for criminal organisations, according to newly obtained police documents that showed police collecting the license plates of worshippers, monitoring them on surveillance cameras and cataloging sermons through a network of informants. The documents, obtained by The Associated Press, have come to light as the NYPD fends off criticism of its monitoring of Muslim student groups and...
10:51 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Newark: Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city's mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months in mid-2007, plainclothes officers from the NYPD's Demographics Units fanned out across Newark, taking pictures and eavesdropping...
07:01 AM, Feb 23, 2012
A day after the verdict, all is calm in Ayodhya. Amid tight security, Friday prayers were held at the mosques in a calm and cordial atmosphere. ...
04:53 PM, Oct 01, 2010
Mosques in the US are facing more scrutiny, including the proposed Islamic center and the mosque near Ground Zero. ...
12:45 PM, Sep 03, 2010
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What is the right balance between expression of religious belief and national values? Is Europe suffering from xenophobia in the name of secularism? Will forcing ...
05:19 PM, Apr 23, 2010
The Apex Court has banned all encroachments in the name of religion. ...
03:44 AM, Sep 30, 2009
The restriction will apply to places of worship of all communities. ...
04:00 PM, Sep 29, 2009
As per recent revelations, FBI had planted a spy in a S California mosque. ...
01:01 AM, Apr 17, 2009
Rebuffed by the clergy, the Army has stopped its Operation Sadhbhavana programme to reconstruct sufi shrines and mosques. ...
07:07 PM, Jun 04, 2007
The Army's initiative to renovate mosques and shrines in Jammu and Kashmir isn’t getting the response it expected. ...
12:04 AM, May 31, 2007
Friday's attack was another in a series of terror attacks on mosques and temples that have happened in last year. ...
01:05 AM, May 19, 2007
The girls, numbering a few hundreds, addressed media and threatened to push back police and paramilitary troops. ...
08:01 PM, Feb 06, 2007
There was talk of demolishing the mosque about a decade ago because the govt thought it was an encroachment. ...
11:08 PM, Oct 22, 2006
Vishwa Hindu Parishad gave ultimatum to Bhopal district administration to demolish all mosques constructed on govt land. ...
06:53 PM, Sep 19, 2006
