Lebanon blasts: Q&A about why they happened
By DIAA HADID Lebanese citizens and security forces gather near the entrance of the Iranian embassy, background, where two explosions have struck, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013. Twin…
Religious strife
Pakistan imposes curfew in city after clashes
By ZARAR KHAN Smoke hangs over a burnt market which was set on fire by Shiite Muslims in Friday’s clashes with Sunni Muslims, while authorities block a road with horse-carts…
Attacks against Shiites in Iraq kill at least 41
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN Iraqi Shiite faithful worshippers re-enact the seventh century battle of Karbala during the festival of Ashoura in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday,…
Double bombing, shooting kill 7 people in Iraq
By SAMEER N. YACOUB An Iraqi man inspects his car destroyed in a suicide car bomb in the Baghdad al-Jadidah district, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. Officials in Iraq said…
AL-QAIDA SURGES BACK IN IRAQ, REVIVING OLD FEARS
By ADAM SCHRECK FILE – In this Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, women walk past the aftermath of a car bomb attack in the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah in…
MYANMAR MUSLIMS HIDE AMID DEADLY SECTARIAN CLASHES
By KHIN MAUNG WIN Totally blackened pillars stand among debris of a burnt building Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, in Thandwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Terrified Muslim families hid in forests…
PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS PROTEST DEADLY CHURCH BOMBING
By RIAZ KHAN A Pakistani woman mourns as she holds the lifeless body of her granddaughter, a victim of a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept.…
SUICIDE ATTACK ON PAKISTANI CHURCH KILLS 75 PEOPLE
By RIAZ KHAN Pakistani Christians chant slogans as they burn materials during a protest against a suicide attack on a church, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 in Karachi, Pakistan. A suicide…