Discover the history and unique architecture behind Colombo’s iconic Red Mosque and its cultural importance in Sri Lanka.

A standoff follows a bloody encounter between Pakistani security forces and militant Islamic students at the Red Mosque in Islamabad. A Taliban-style movement headquartered in the mosque, drawing on ...

A suicide bomber on Friday killed at least thirteen people and wounded dozens of others in an explosion near Islamabad's Red Mosque, after violence erupted when the government reopened the religious ...

After days of battle, Pakistani forces stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad Tuesday, killing at least 60 people, including hard-line cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi. A reporter in the region provides an ...

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 consequences were immediate and deadly when last-minute negotiations at Islamabad’s besieged Red Mosque failed Monday night. A group of religious and political leaders, including former Prime ...

July 4 (Reuters) - The head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a stand-off with security forces, Abdul Aziz, was arrested on Wednesday while trying to escape clad in a woman's burqa, ...

Depending on whom you talk to in Pakistan, the occupation by Islamist militants of a site in the heart of the capital, Islamabad, is either a potential tragedy or a manipulated farce. Some Pakistani ...

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Imagine that an Islamist central command exists — and that you are its chief strategist, with a mandate to spread full application of Shariah, or Islamic law, through all means available, with the ...