In one of the worst attacks on Sunday, assailants opened fire on worshipers leaving a prayer service at the Abid Wais mosque before dawn, killing three people and wounding two.
CHICAGO — The Justice Department has opened an investigation into an F.B.I. raid near Detroit last fall that left a Muslim prayer leader dead with 21 gunshot wounds, officials said Tuesday.
Raising fears of a resurgence of Islamic militancy, a bomb attack on a Christian hospital here this morning killed 3 Pakistani nurses and wounded 23 people as they left a chapel after prayer services.
In the southern Iraqi city of Amara on Saturday morning, unidentified assailants shot and killed the police chief as he left a mosque after prayers.
Afghan officials said the attack in the Baghlani Jadid district of Baghlan Province, which occurred as worshipers left a mosque after prayers on the first day of the three-day Id al-Adha holiday, was carried out by the Taliban.
On Friday, July 26th, a prominent lawyer in Benghazi, Abdelsalam al-Mismari, was shotkilled as he left a mosque after Friday prayers.
In the northern city of Mosul, separate attacks on Wednesday killed four police officers, while a senior leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party, Ahmed Fatthi al-Jaburi, was assassinated as he left a mosque after evening prayers.
As usual, he recited the kaddish prayers and left a stone on each gravestone.
A witness from the area said the first bombing occurred near a bakery on the crowded street as people left a nearby mosque after sunset prayers, with the second attack taking places minutes later about 50 metres away.
Pope Francis leaves after a prayer at the statue of the Virgin Mary during the annual feast of the Immaculate Conception at the Spanish Steps in Rome.
