Minarets blown up at Iraq Shi'ite shrine
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Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine bombed last year in an attack that unleashed a wave of sectarian killing.
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Three Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and burned south of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi police said, in apparent reprisal attacks after suspected al Qaeda militants blew up the minarets of a revered Shi'ite shrine.
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At least seven people were killed and 31 injured today when a bomb exploded at the gate to one of Shia Islamâs holiest shrines in Iraq, hospital officials said.
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Militants detonated a car bomb near a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, the Muslim holy day, intensifying efforts to drive a wedge between Iraq's religious communities ahead of elections nine days away.
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Insurgents in Iraq today blew up the two minarets of Samarra's al-Askari mosque, one of Shia Islam's most revered sites.
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A suicide car bomb blew up outside a  Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, the Muslim holy day,  intensifying efforts to drive a wedge between Iraq's religious  communities ahead of an election in nine days' time.
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BAGHDAD, June 13 -- The Iraqi government imposed a curfew across Baghdad on Wednesday after insurgents used explosives to demolish two minarets at a revered Shiite shrine whose partial destruction last year sparked a devastating increase in sectarian bloodshed.
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A rocket fired by Shi&#39;ite militants clipped the wall of the Imam Ali shrine in the city of Najaf on Tuesday and may have damaged the building, the US military said in a statement.
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A bomb exploded on Wednesday at one gate of a holy Shiite shrine in Karbala, south of Baghdad, killing seven people in what seemed to be an attempt to kill an aide to a top Shiite cleric in the country and casting the shadow of violence at the first day
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims streaming toward a shrine south of Baghdad, killing up to 90 people
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes pounded areas near a  shrine where radical Shi'ite militiamen were holed up early  Friday after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final  demand from Iraq's interim prime minister to disarm.
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NAJAF: A fierce gunbattle erupted between US troops and radical Shi&#39;ite militants near Najaf&#39;s holy shrine this morning, a Reuters witness said.
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Angry fellow Shi'ites stoned Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's motorcade in a Shi'ite stronghold of Baghdad on Sunday in a display of fury over a devastating car bomb that tore through their area.
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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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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. helicopter gunships pounded  Shi'ite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as  tanks rumbled to within 800 meters (yards) of a holy shrine at  the center of a near three-week insurgency.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - When shrapnel lands in Najaf's Imam  Ali shrine, Shi'ite militants holed up inside the sacred  complex casually inspect the hot metal and then return to  prayers or chanting defiant slogans.
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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