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Muslim mob burns Catholic church in Sudan capital

Last updated Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 7:17am

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- A Muslim mob has set ablaze a Catholic church frequented by Southern Sudanese in the capital Khartoum, witnesses and media reports said on Sunday.

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People inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Palestine Street, Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 19, 2012. A wave of morning bombings across several cities on Thursday, killing and injuring dozens of Iraqis, police said, shattering weeks of calm in a reminder of the nation's continued insurgency. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Bomb blasts in Iraqi cities kill 30

Sinan Salaheddin The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 9:20am

BAGHDAD -- Bombings struck several areas in Baghdad and to the north Thursday, killing at least 30 people in the first major attacks in Iraq in nearly a month. The violence stoked fears that insurgents were trying to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government amid rising sectarian tensions.

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Multiple bomb blasts hit Nigerian city

Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 2:42pm

JOHANNESBURG -- Nigeria's troubled north, already plagued by a rash of terrorist bombings and drive-by killings during the last year, faced a new attack Friday: multiple bombings in Kano, the region's largest city. Fighting between gunmen and security forces was also reported.

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FILE - In a Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 file photo, medical officials try to treat a victim of a bomb blast at a Catholic church near Nigeria's capital at Suleja General Hospital in Suleja, Nigeria. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing at least 25 people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect, Boko Haram, claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. Boko Haram's insurgency started with robed men on motorcycles killing their enemies one at a time across Nigeria's remote and dusty northeast. Now the radical Muslim sect's attacks have morphed into a nationwide sectarian fight. (AP Photo/Dele Jones, File)

Christians targeted in Nigerian violence

Jon Gambrell, Njadvara Musa The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 11:32am

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria's northeast during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said Saturday, as Christians vowed to defend themselves from the group's widening sectarian fight against the country's government.

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At least 61 dead in northeast Nigeria violence

Jon Gamble, Njadvara Musa The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 8:42am

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- At least 61 people have been killed during several days of fighting in northeast Nigeria between security forces and a radical Muslim sect responsible for a series of increasingly bloody attacks in Africa's most populous nation, authorities said Saturday.

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Iraqi security forces and people gather the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. A wave of bombings ripped across Baghdad on Thursday morning killing and wounding hundreds of people, Iraqi officials said, in the worst violence Iraq has seen for months. The bloodbath comes just days after American forces left the country. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Wave of bombings across Iraqi capital kills 60

Qassim Abdul-Zahra The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 10:53am

BAGHDAD -- A wave of at least 14 bombings ripped across Baghdad Thursday morning, killing at least 60 people in the worst violence in Iraq for months. The apparently coordinated attacks struck days after the last American forces left the country and in the midst of a major government crisis between Shiite and Sunni politicians that has sent sectarian tensions soaring.

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An Afghan man is comforted by relatives outside of a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shiite worshippers marking a holy day Tuesday in the Afghan capital as scores of people were killed in an unprecedented wave of violence against the minority Islamic sect in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Suicide attacks on Afghan Shiites kill 60

Amir Shah, Rahim Faiez The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 10:47am

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shiite worshippers at a mosque in Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least 55 people in the deadliest of two attacks on a Shiite holy day -- the first major sectarian assaults since the fall of the Taliban a decade ago.

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