Saudi security forces stormed a building in the Persian Gulf oil city of Khobar today and said they captured suspected Islamic militants who had spread a wave of terror through a foreign's housing compound.
Unknown attackers in Karachi have killed a militant Sunni Muslim cleric, sparking violence in Pakistan's largest city. Pakistani authorities say supporters of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai mobbed Karachi's streets, ransacking a police station and setting fire to vehicles and a bank.
U-S forces and fighters loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr battled again today in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, a day after the two sides clashed in nearby Kufa.