At least two people have been killed and six injured in an attack on a mosque in the Azerbaijani capital Baku. Police say a hand grenade was thrown into the mosque in the centre of the city. At least 100 people were present in the crowded mosque at the time. The motive for the attack is unknown, reports Radio Netherlands.

A major row has erupted in Britain over a plan by Muslims of East Oxford to summon believers for prayers over a loudspeaker from a mosque with local residents terming the practice an attempt to turn the area into a "Muslim ghetto".

At least 54 people have been killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up during Eid prayers at a mosque in northwest Pakistan, apparently targeting former minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who escaped unhurt.

A ancient template going as far back to the reign of pharaoh Ramses II was found in a mosque in Luxor, Egypt.

The army of Pakistan diligently carried out the operation with women and children coming out of the mosque to whom radicals were using as their shield.

60 killed as Pak troops storm Lal Masjid; Ghazi asked to surrender. In a decisive action to flush out militants holed up inside the Lal Masjid in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, security forces stormed into the mosque complex at the crack of Tuesday dawn, killing at least 60 radicals and injuring many others.

A bomb ripped through an India historic mosque as prayers were ending, killing at least seven people and wounding nearly three dozen. Two other unexploded bombs were found and defused by police.

At least five persons have been killed and four others, including two children, were injured when a bomb exploded in the historic Mecca mosque in the Charminar area of the old city of Hyderabad this afternoon, in India.