All, essentially, in the name of God:

In rapid succession Tuesday, a Palestinian man opened fire on a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub, a suicide bomber blew himself up on an Israeli bus, gunmen ambushed Israeli motorists in the West Bank and a mysterious blast went off in the Gaza Strip. [Yahoo]

Hundreds of U.S. troops and waves of B-52 bombers pounded snowcapped mountains Monday and early this morning in Afghanistan, where a recently built-up force of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were mounting a furious defense near the Pakistan border. [USA Today]

More than 570 people, mainly Muslims, died in six days of violence in Gujarat state that erupted when a Muslim mob burned 58 Hindu pilgrims alive in an attack on a train last Wednesday. [Yahoo]