Aide to Iraqi Shia leader killed
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A representative of Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric is assassinated along with four bodyguards and his son.
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A bomb exploded at the gate to one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines on Wednesday. Early reports say that several were killed and possibly dozens wounded, including a top aide of Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, officials said.
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Shia militia to target British troops after its Basra leader was killed by Iraqi forces
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The U.S. military said Tuesday that an aide to Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in an airstrike in the militant stronghold of Fallujah.
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Iraq&#39;s most influential Shia cleric, Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani, is in the southern city of Basra and will head to Najaf soon to try to resolve the crisis there, an aide says.
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US-led and Iraqi troops kill 20 suspected Shia gunmen in the south as police find 51 bodies in Baghdad.
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Two aides to Iraq's top Shi'ite leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani have been killed in separate attacks apparently aimed at inflaming sectarian conflict among Iraqis already divided on whether Jan. 30 polls should go ahead.
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Security forces across Pakistan are on alert following the death of a prominent Shia leader from gunshot wounds.
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A British soldier was believed to have been killed and another seriously injured last night after clashes with Shia fighters in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
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Two influential Sunni Muslim clerics were killed in Iraq, and authorities awaited word Monday on the fate of three groups of hostages, including a Briton and two Americans.
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A bomb exploded at the gate of a revered Shiite shrine Wednesday, killing seven people in an apparent attempt to kill an aide to Iraq&#39;s
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Government officials in Yemen say security forces have killed a radical Muslim cleric, who led a three-month rebellion and staged violent protests against Israel and the United States.
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At least one person is killed apparently heeding a top Iraqi cleric's call to march on Najaf, where a stand-off continues.
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Gunmen have killed a senior official of  Iraq's main Sunni Muslim party, which last month withdrew from  the Jan. 30 election race it wants postponed, the Iraqi Islamic  Party said Wednesday.
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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.
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At least 17 Iraqis have been killed and 96 wounded in fierce clashes between US soldiers and fighters loyal to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi health ministry official said on Monday.
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The most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed Thursday in an explosion near his home in Anbar province