Mortar Shells Hit Mosque in Old Iraq City
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Blood and shrapnel covered the grounds of the ancient Kufa mosque compound Thursday after at least two mortar blasts ripped through a crowd of Iraqis gathered to march to the holy city of Najaf, killing at least 27 people and wounding at least 63.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Explosions and gunfire shook Najaf's Old City on Sunday in a fierce battle between U.S. forces and Shiite militants, as negotiations dragged on for the handover of the revered shrine that the fighters have used for their stronghold...
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NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. warplanes bombed Najaf's Old City and gunfire rattled on Sunday amid fears a plan to end the standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr could collapse...
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US and Iraqi forces have shelled insurgent targets in the Iraqi city of Fallujah following a lull in fighting overnight. Witnesses say troops fired a barrage of mortar shells Saturday, in Fallujah&#39;s Jolan district in the northwest.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine bombed last year in an attack that unleashed a wave of sectarian killing.
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The two minarets of one of Iraq's holiest Shia sites are damaged by explosions, officials in Samarra say.
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Explosions near a mosque in the Iraqi  town of Kufa killed and wounded many people on Thursday, a  Shi'ite cleric at the scene told Reuters.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A mortar attack on the main mosque  in the town of Kufa on Thursday killed at least 25 people as  Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric headed to the nearby  holy city of Najaf to try to end a bloody three-week uprising.
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More than 100 Iraqis have been killed or wounded in a mortar attack on the National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad, according to Iraqi officials.
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A huge toll was feared after mortar rounds hit an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad. Officials said more than 100 Iraqis were killed and wounded, but there was no breakdown giving the number of fatalaities.
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Retired Iraqi army officer Abdul-Rahman al-Nuami, 60, can clearly remember the evening in mid-June when he first heard the dull boom of a mortar round slamming into his mainly Sunni district in western Baghdad.
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A truck bomber attacked a revered Shiite shrine in the heart of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 78 people and wounding more than 200 in a resumption of Iraq's relentless sectarian slaughter. The mosque's turquoise dome survived, but the blast buried some worshippers and badly burned others.
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The bombing near a Shiite mosque in Diyala on Tuesday, provoked Shiite militiamen to use mortars against a nearby Sunni village in retaliation.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric unexpectedly returned to Iraq from Britain on Wednesday armed with a new peace initiative and a call for Iraqis across the country to march on the holy city to demand an end to weeks of fighting in Najaf.    But a mortar attack on the main mosque in the nearby city of Kufa killed 25 people and wounded 60 others Thursday, hospital officials and witnesses said, a blow to hopes that the crisis could be resolved peacefully...
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Suspected al Qaeda militants on Wednesday blew up the minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra, target of a 2006 bomb attack that unleashed a tidal wave of sectarian violence.
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At least 30 explosions shook Najaf&#39;s Old City late on Thursday as a US plane hit militant targets east of the Imam Ali shrine.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A mortar attack on a packed mosque  in the town of Kufa on Thursday killed at least 25 people as  Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric headed to the nearby  holy city of Najaf to try to end a bloody three-week uprising.