Pilgrims scatter after Iraq gunbattles kill 52
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims fled Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday after a day of fierce gunbattles near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines killed 52 people during an annual religious rite.
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Car bombs and mortar attacks killed 50 people in Iraq, police and local officials said on Saturday, while the U.S. military said six of its soldiers had been killed in the past two days.
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Iraqi security forces have arrested 72 gunmen following clashes in the city of Kerbala this week that forced hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to flee a religious festival, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday.
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Snipers lurking on buildings and in a cemetery sprayed bullets into Shiite Muslim religious processions in the capital Sunday, killing at least 20 people in another spasm of sectarian bloodletting that many Iraqis fear is pushing them toward civil war.
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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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Fifty-two people were killed and 206 wounded in a day of fierce clashes between security forces and gunmen in the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday, a senior security source in Baghdad said.
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At least 22 people were killed and 50 others wounded when rockets and mortars struck a dining hall at a US military base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, US defense officials said on Tuesday.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Shi'ite rebels began handing in  weapons and leaving a holy shrine on Friday in Iraq's Najaf,  where tens of thousands of pilgrims flocked to celebrate a  peace deal reached overnight to end a bloody three-week  uprising.
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At least 67 people were killed and many injured when a car bomb hit the Iraqi holy cities of Karbala and Najaf on Sunday. In Najaf, at least 51 people were killed when a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police killed three people on Monday night in clashes with pilgrims in Iraq's holy 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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Bomb attacks killed 57 people and wounded more than 120 across Iraq on Wednesday as suspected al Qaeda militants stepped up a campaign of violence coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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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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Sniper attacks on a Shiite religious procession killed 10 pilgrims and injured 43 in Baghdad on Sunday. Four suspected gunmen were shot dead by police, officials said.
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Three people were killed and around 50 others wounded in Baghdad on Saturday when soccer- loving Iraqis fired weapons into the air to celebrate their team's quarter-final victory over Vietnam in the Asian Cup.
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BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber barreled into a flatbed truck packed with Shi'ite pilgrims yesterday, touching off a giant fireball that left charred bodies strewn through a street in the heart of Baghdad. At least 32 people were killed.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after a fierce gunbattle between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Shi'ite fighters left the holiest  shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf Friday and began turning in  their weapons, after tens of thousands of pilgrims celebrated a  peace agreement that ended a bloody rebellion.