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Three suicide bombers attack a Shiite mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 47 people and injuring 70 others. The explosions occur at the main door and inside the mosque. Taliban authorities later arrived and secured the mosque. Taliban interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosti says that authorities are currently collecting evidence in order to determine responsibility for the bombing.
2021-10-15

A suicide car bombing in Mogadishu kills five people and injures nine others. The attack targeted Mogadishu’s police chief, who survived. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.
2021-07-10

A congress of female Islamic clerics in Cirebon, Indonesia, issues several fatwas, one of which opposes child marriage.
2017-04-27

A bomb targets a mosque in the city of Parachinar near the border with Afghanistan killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens more.
2017-03-31

At least 32 people are killed and another 80 injured in a suicide bombing at a Kabul Shia mosque. ISIL claims responsibility.
2016-11-21

At least 42 people are killed and 84 injured after a reported suicide bombing at a Damascus mosque. Senior pro-government Sunni cleric Mohammed al-Buti is amongst those killed.
2013-03-21

At least 29 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad's largest Sunni mosque including Khalid al-Fahdawi, a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq.
2011-08-28

A bomb explodes in a mosque in the Indonesian city of Cirebon in West Java with at least one person dead and seventeen injured.
2011-04-15

Two major US TV networks, CBS and NBC, censor the "Kill the Ground Zero Mosque" advertisement by conservative group National Republican Trust which calls plans to erect a mosque near New York City's Ground Zero a "monstrosity".
2010-07-15

Egyptian mosques pray for President Hosni Mubarak—who is ill and whose health is taboo—as images of his recovery in Germany are broadcast on television screens, boosting stock markets.
2010-03-19