Attacks kill 112 Shi'ite pilgrims in Iraq
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HILLA, Iraq  - Insurgents killed 112 Shi'ite pilgrims streaming to the holy city of Kerbala in attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, including more than 70 after suicide bombers blew themselves up in a street lined with tents.
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BAGHDAD -- Tens of thousands of Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims headed to a shrine city south of the capital yesterday amid heavy security as the daily toll of casualties mounted in a sectarian war without respite.
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At least 40 people die in attacks across Iraq at the climax of the Shia Muslim religious festival of Ashura.
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Bombers and gunmen killed 40 people in attacks on Shi'ite worshippers marking the religious Ashura ritual on Tuesday, amid heightened tension between Iraq's majority Shi'ite Muslim community and once-dominant Sunni Arabs.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Four people were killed and 18 wounded in a fresh outbreak of violence in the holy Iraqi city of Kerbala, where hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims gathered on Tuesday for a major ritual, police said.
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More than 20 people were killed in  attacks on Shi'ite targets Friday in violence apparently aimed  at stoking sectarian hatred days before the climax of one of  the holiest events in the Shi'ite calendar.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - A major Shi'ite ritual ended peacefully in the southern city of Kerbala on Saturday after Iraqi forces imposed tight security around 2.5 million pilgrims, but attacks in the north killed nine worshippers.
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Attacks on Shia Muslim pilgrims in Iraq continue with at least 11 people killed on their way to the holy city of Karbala.
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A car bomb targeting Shia pilgrims in central Baghdad kills more than a dozen people, police say.
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Attacks on Shiite pilgrims continued Wednesday, with at least 11 people killed by bombs and gunfire who were heading for a solemn religious ritual, police said.
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The attacks were aimed at reigniting a cycle of sectarian retribution as hundreds of thousands of Shiites made their pilgrimage to Karbala.
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BAGHDAD -- A spate of grisly attacks believed to have been carried out by Sunni Arab militants has killed dozens of Shi'ites around Baghdad this week, just days ahead of a planned march of devout Shi'ites through Sunni heartlands to the remnants of a revered shrine.
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A bomb attack near Muslim Shiites commemorating Ashura, one of the group's holiest events in Iraq kills two people a day after fighting between security forces and members of a violent Shiite messianic cult killed 56 people and raised religious tensions as millions gather to mark the day.
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims streaming toward a shrine south of Baghdad, killing 93 people
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At least 115 people are killed in a series of blasts in the Shia Sadr City area of the Iraqi capital, sources say.
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A suicide car bomber turned a venerable book market into a deadly inferno and gunmen targeted Shiite pilgrims Monday as suspected Sunni insurgents brought major bloodshed back into the lap of their main Shiite rivals. At least 38 people died in the blast and seven pilgrims were killed.
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BAGHDAD, March 6 -- At least 146 Shiite pilgrims were killed in a series of attacks across central Iraq on Tuesday, a wave of violence on the eve of one of Shiite Islam's most sacred holidays that appeared intended to widen Iraq's sectarian divide.