A pair of Taliban suicide bombers struck one of Pakistan’s most important Sufi Muslim shrines, killing 42 people and wounding 100 who were celebrating the anniversary of its founder’s death.

A pair of suicide bombers have struck at a shrine in Pakistan, killing 30 people and continuing a campaign of attacks against places of worship that extremists consider unIslamic, officials said.

A suicide bomber killed 33 people leaving a reconciliation meeting between Sunni and Shiite rivals near Baghdad today.

A handful of Sunni mosques were attacked or burned today, but curfews and increased troop levels kept Iraq in relative calm a day after suspected al Qaida bombers toppled the towering minarets of a revered Shiite shrine.

An armed confrontation between two Iraqi army units left one soldier and one civilian dead, raising questions about the US-trained force’s ability to maintain control at a time when sectarian and ethnic tensions are running high.