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Suspected Islamist militants attacked two mosques packed with hundreds of worshippers from a minority sect in eastern Pakistan on Friday, holding hostages and battling police, officials and witnesses said. More than 70 people died, and dozens were wounded....

In a daring midday raid that showed insurgents' ability to strike Pakistan's military virtually at will, militants today stormed a Rawalpindi mosque filled with military officers and a group of children, killing at least 37 people with a combination of gunfire, grenades and suicide bomb blasts.

At least nine people were killed and at least 30 were wounded Friday in a suicide attack targeting Sunni Muslim worshipers at a mosque in northern Iraq, an Interior Ministry said.

A suicide car bomber killed 38 people as they left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque just outside the volatile northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said Friday, while a series of bombs in Baghdad killed six Shi'ite pilgrims.

A series of near simultaneous explosions shook five Shiite mosques around Baghdad today as Friday prayers were ending, killing at least 28 people and wounding dozens more.

The head of the largest Sunni bloc in the Iraqi Parliament was gunned down Friday while presiding over prayers at a mosque in downtown Baghdad.