(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) -Muslims in a number of countries around the world have been staging street protests against a film made in the US, mocking the Prophet Muhammad.
In Pakistan, more than a dozen people were killed and a number of others injured as demonstrations turned violent in several cities across the country.
Riot police in Islamabad fired tear gas and also live rounds as the protesters tried to break into the diplomatic area, where the US embassy is located.
In Yemen, demonstrators chanted anti-US slogans on the streets of the capital Sanaa.
Security forces seemed better prepared than a week earlier, when several US embassies were attacked. Riot police in Sanaa blocked approaches to the US embassy.
These men burned US and Israeli flags in Basra, southern Iraq.
An effigy of US President Barack Obama was burnt by Muslims in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Palestinians demonstrated outside the Dome of the Rock at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City.
In Tanzania's biggest city, Dar es Salaam, thousands of people gathered for a peaceful protest after Friday prayers. They held up slogans against the US and Israel and called for the US embassy to be removed.
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