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Thirty-four people were killed and 100 wounded in a blast during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan's Khyber Agency, a government official said. The mosque had about 300 people when the blast went off, officials said.

Several hundred Afghans chanting "Death to America" rallied outside a mosque in the Afghan capital on Monday to protest against an American church's plan to burn a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

At least nine people were killed and at least 30 were wounded Friday in a suicide attack targeting Sunni Muslim worshipers at a mosque in northern Iraq, an Interior Ministry said.

A series of near simultaneous explosions shook five Shiite mosques around Baghdad today as Friday prayers were ending, killing at least 28 people and wounding dozens more.

The head of the largest Sunni bloc in the Iraqi Parliament was gunned down Friday while presiding over prayers at a mosque in downtown Baghdad.