Millions mark Shi'ite ritual in Iraq after clashes
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala as 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi'ite rite on Saturday, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities.
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At least six people are killed in clashes between police and members of an Shia cult in southern Iraq, officials say.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police killed three people on Monday night in clashes with pilgrims in Iraq's city of Kerbala, where tens of thousands of Shi'ites have gathered for one of the holiest days on the Shi'ite calendar.
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Iraqis took to the streets of Shi'ite towns and cities on Saturday to protest over the detention by U.S. troops of the eldest son of Abdul-Aziz al- Hakim, one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders.
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Supporters of Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani were fired upon in the town of Kufa on Thursday and 20 people were killed, a Reuters photographer said from the scene.
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BAGHDAD -- More than 115 Shi'ite pilgrims were killed in a coordinated series of attacks across Iraq yesterday, a wave of violence on the eve of one of Shi'ite Islam's most sacred holidays that appeared intended to widen Iraq's sectarian divide.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after fierce clashes between security forces and gunmen killed 52 people during a major Shi'ite religious festival.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - More than a million Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims poured into Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, defying insurgents who killed around 160 people in two days of attacks blamed by the government on Sunni militants.
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BAGHDAD -- Hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims beating their chests in mourning accompanied 17 coffins through Baghdad's main Shi'ite district yesterday, demanding that militiamen be allowed to protect them after a wave of attacks blamed on Sunni Arab insurgents.
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SHEIKH ADI, Iraq  - Worshippers sacrifice fowl and  offer dawn prayers to the angel Malak Taus as hundreds of  members Iraq's obscure Yezidi sect gather at their Lalish  temple to celebrate the summer feast.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Thousands of pilgrims streamed into the Imam Ali Shrine on Friday and militants left, handing the keys to Shiite religious authorities after Iraq's top Shiite cleric brokered a peace deal to end three weeks of fighting in this holy city.    Dozens of Iraqi police and national guardsmen deployed around the compound of the walled, golden-domed shrine in the Old City Friday afternoon - but did not enter...
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DIWANIYA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi troops killed 20 suspected Shi'ite militiamen late on Saturday in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya in heavy clashes that police said went on into Sunday.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Supporters of Iraq's top Shi'ite  cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani were fired upon in the  town of Kufa on Thursday and 20 people were killed, a Reuters  photographer said from the scene.
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Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims clambered aboard buses or began trekking homeward on foot Saturday at the end of Ashoura, a 10-day ritual to cleanse the spirit and scourge the body in honor of their founding saint.
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Shiite Muslims on Tuesday marked Ashoura, commemorating the death in A.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala on Saturday for the climax of a major Shi'ite ceremony after gunmen from a Shi'ite cult attacked pilgrims and police in two other southern cities.
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Thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims set off for Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Sunday, demonstrating their political power but aware of the threat of bomb attacks ahead of one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest days.