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1/30/2023 11:17:06 PM
The Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, claimed responsibility for Monday's suicide bombing at a mosque inside a police compound in the northwestern city of Peshawar, in one of the deadliest attacks on security forces in recent months.
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International
1/30/2023 7:30:00 PM
A suicide bomber struck a crowded mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan on Monday, causing the roof to collapse and killing at least 59 people and wounding more than 150 others, officials said.
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1/25/2023 10:45:27 PM
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian who allegedly tried to stab a soldier in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, while a Palestinian teenager was shot dead after brandishing what Israeli police said was a fake pistol during an operation in east Jerusalem, according to Palestinian officials.
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1/24/2023 4:44:57 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise trip to Jordan on Tuesday to meet with King Abdullah II, his first visit since taking power at the helm of Israel's most right-wing and religiously conservative government in history.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
1/21/2023 9:13:35 PM
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has given instructions to establish large mosques nationwide, belonging to the Ministry of Religious Endowments, to spread true religion, Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement on Saturday.
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1/17/2023 6:29:26 PM
Jordan summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman on Tuesday to protest a move by Israeli police to block the Jordanian envoy from entering a volatile holy site in Jerusalem. The incident quickly escalated tensions between the neighbors and reflected the heightened sensitivity around the sacred compound under Israel's new ultranationalist government.
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1/4/2023 9:59:36 PM
The UN Security Council will meet Thursday to discuss the visit to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by an Israeli minister that has enraged Palestinians.
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1/3/2023 11:41:57 PM
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would task the Palestinian mission to the United Nations to seek a UN Security Council condemnation over the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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1/3/2023 10:45:23 PM
The United States on Tuesday voiced concern about the visit of a far-right minister in Israel's new government to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, holy to both Jews and Muslims, and warned against any change in the status quo.
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1/3/2023 8:12:24 PM
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were among nations to condemn a visit Tuesday by Israel's extreme-right new national security minister to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/3/2023 4:44:47 PM
Egypt expresses regret that an official in the new israeli giovernment has stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and warned of the consequences of any unilateral measures that violate the status of the city on the peace process.
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1/3/2023 9:28:35 AM
Israel's extreme-right firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir visited Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound Tuesday for the first time since becoming a minister, his spokesman said, enraging Palestinians who see the move as a provocation.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/26/2022 6:30:06 PM
Egypt condemned the repeated violations by Israeli extremists at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque in full view of the Israeli occupation forces, the foreign ministry stated on Monday.
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International
9/23/2022 2:52:25 PM
A blast outside a mosque attended by Taliban members in the Afghan capital killed four people minutes after Friday prayers had ended, according to a hospital.
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9/22/2022 3:34:43 PM
Hamas threatened 'repercussions' over Jewish visits to Jerusalem's super-sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound, in a warning issued Thursday, days before the start of the Jewish high holidays when visitor numbers increase.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/3/2022 9:02:00 PM
Egypt strongly condemned a blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan that left dozens of people dead and injured, a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs read.
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International
9/2/2022 1:39:47 PM
An explosion tore through a crowded mosque in western Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 18 people, including a prominent cleric, Taliban officials and a local medic said. At least 21 people were hurt.
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International
8/31/2022 9:42:54 AM
Rubina Bibi was cooking food for her family in her mudbrick home in her village in northwest Pakistan when the nearby mosque blared a warning from its loudspeaker. Flood waters were coming, it announced, everyone should move to safer ground.
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8/25/2022 10:20:16 PM
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Opinion
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8/23/2022 6:23:46 PM
In 2016, and while the worshippers were finishing their Friday prayers in one of Cairo's mosques, the Imam started praying for the American President Barack Obama. That supplication at the conclusion of the sermon was a surprise to all. Some of the worshipers were less focused, so they started chanting “Amin” before realizing to whom that supplication was. Others were divided between supporters and opponents.
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