Mortar Attack Kills 27 at Kufa Mosque
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KUFA, Iraq - A mortar barrage hit the main mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufa on Thursday, killing 27 people and wounding 63 others as they prepared to march on the violence-wracked city of Najaf, hospital officials and witnesses said.    Thousands of people were crowded around the mosque at the time and dead bodies lay around the mosque compound, which is a stronghold of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, witnesses said...
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Supporters of rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were fired on as they marched from the town of Kufa to the city of Najaf on Thursday and several were wounded, witnesses at the scene said.
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ISLAMABAD, 2 October 2004 - A suspected suicide bomb blast ripped through a Shiite mosque during Friday prayers in Sialkot, 170 kilometers southeast of here, killing at least 30 people and leaving dozens injured, sources said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - At least 27 people were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber in a car packed with explosives drove into a crowd of mourners at a funeral in Falluja, west of Baghdad, police said.
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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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KIRKUK, Iraq  - A suicide bomber detonated his  vehicle near a police academy in the city of Kirkuk on  Saturday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 20, police  said, in the latest attack on Iraqi security forces.
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Two simultaneous car-bomb explosions Wednesday rocked the neighborhood of the capital's holiest Shiite Muslim shrine, killing at least seven people and wounding 27 others, police reported.
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At least 17 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk. Dozens more were wounded in the blast near the town&#39;s police academy.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric made a dramatic return to Najaf at the head of a massive convoy Thursday hoping to end three weeks of fighting in the holy city, but hours earlier a mortar barrage slammed into a mosque filled with Iraqis preparing to join his march, killing 27 people.    Along with the mortar attack, another group of thousands of marchers heading into Najaf from its sister-city Kufa came under fire from an Iraqi National Guard base...
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TAL AFAR, Iraq  - A bomb in a market killed 17   people and wounded 27 in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar on   Monday, local police said.
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Police ordered a curfew Tuesday in Shiite holy city of Karbala and told more than 1 million pilgrims to leave after two days of violence claimed at least 27 lives during a religious festival. More than 100 people were wounded.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - At least 27 people were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday when a suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of mourners at a funeral in Falluja, west of Baghdad, police said.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shiite cleric, arrived in Najaf today hours after a mortar barrage hit a mosque in Kufa, killing at least 27 people.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Three mortar bombs hit a police  station in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Thursday, causing  many casualties, police said.
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A mortar barrage Thursday killed nine civilians and wounded 40 in southern Baghdad, police said. The attack occurred in south Baghdad&#039;s predominantly Sunni Arab Dora district and involved seven mortar rounds landing on four houses, said police Capt. Jamil Hussein.
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Explosives planted by suspected Muslim militants went off at three locations in southern Narathiwat Province near the Malaysian border early on Monday wounding 27 people, police said.
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BAGHDAD -- A suicide truck bomber sent a deadly storm of metal, stone, and jagged plaster through worship ers leaving a Sunni mosque yesterday, killing at least 39 in a possible sign of escalating internal Sunni battles between insurgents and those who oppose them.