The Red Mosque became a focal point for renewed violence as it opened for Friday prayers, with militants battling police and an apparent suicide blast nearby killing at least 13 people.

Officials reopened the Red Mosque for prayers Thursday, two weeks after it was battered by fierce clashes between security forces and Islamist militants that left more than 100 people dead.

Explosion Rocks Islamabad as Red Mosque Reopens At least thirteen people are dead and dozens are wounded in an explosion near Islamabad's Red Mosque. The violence erupted during Friday's reopening ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The Red Mosque, where a siege involving Islamic militants ended in a deadly commando raid two weeks ago, will reopen Friday with a new coat of paint — in pale yellow ...

The captured chief cleric of a militant mosque led predicted that the deaths of the mosque’s defenders in an army raid would push Pakistan toward an “Islamic revolution.” President Gen ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Tensions brewing around a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital burst into street battles Tuesday between security forces and masked militants who have challenged the ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 11 -- -- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 11 -- About 36 hours after they stormed the Red Mosque in a blaze of gunfire, Pakistani security forces on Wednesday killed the last ...

The kid-gloves treatment afforded Aziz stems in large measure from the still-lingering controversy over the 2007 Red Mosque raid, which was ordered by the military government of Gen. Pervez ...

President Pervez Musharraf’s government said Wednesday that militants accounted for most of the 106 people killed in eight days of fighting around the Red Mosque, calling it a signal that ...

Just before dawn on Tuesday, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf gave the order for his commandos to attack the radical Red Mosque that his troops had surrounded for eight days in the capital, ...

After 2 years in jail, Pakistani cleric returns to controversial Red Mosque. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan<br>April 17, 2009 -- The radical cleric of a mosque that Pakistani authorities say harbored suicide ...