Dome stands as monument to violence
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A year ago, the bombing of this city's revered Shiite mosque set off a spasm of sectarian violence that has pushed the country toward a full-scale civil war. The mosque remains closed, its golden dome still a mound of rubble and wires amid the wave of hatred that has made renovation work too dangerous to begin.
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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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U.S. troops' pinpoint fire and munitions restrictions have ensured that Najaf's Imam Ali shrine remains all but unscathed. But the core of the city around it, dear to millions of Shiite Muslims, has been mauled by combat.
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BAGHDAD -- It began with a dispute over the price of ice and erupted into full-scale violence over the sighting of two strange cars cruising the neighborhood. A week later, the scars of sectarian strife were visible everywhere in Tobji.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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An escalation of ethnic violence is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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PARIS-The television broadcasts are infused with violence and hate. The predicament facing the French government is how to stop them.
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Two people have reportedly been killed and another two injured after a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Meanwhile, fierce fighting has continued overnight in Najaf around the shrine used by rebels loyal to Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr.
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NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. tanks and troops rolled back into the center of Najaf and battled with Shiite militants Sunday, reigniting violence in the holy city just as delegates in Baghdad opened a conference meant to be a landmark in the country's movement toward democracy...
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A view of the Dome of the Rock mosque, located in the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam&#39;s third holiest site and known by Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem&#39;s Old City Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004.
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A man stands amid the debris Monday Dec. 20 2004, following a powerful explosion Sunday in the Shiite Holy city of Najaf. The Najaf car bomb which was detonated Sunday in central Maidan Square, where a large
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A statue has become a blazing symbol of Italyâs legal and moral battle against foreign museums and private collectors.
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Violence continues across western part of the country as rival ethnic groups face off
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New urban architecture applies its art to self-defense, in the face of fears of attack.
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âThe smell of burnt flesh filled the air and blood smeared the deserted streets of Najaf&#39;s Old City after heavy US air strikes on Shiite militia positions around Iraq&#39;s revered Imam Ali shrineâ, reported Agence France-Presse on August 25.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A fierce gunbattle erupted early on  Monday between U.S. troops and radical Shi'ite militants near  Najaf's holy shrine, a Reuters witness said.
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More than two dozen Iraqis were killed and many more wounded Thursday in two separate assaults hours before Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, arrived in this holy city to lead the march for peace they were planning to attend.