Iraq mosque attacks continue as curfews enforced
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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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In a crackdown on militant clerics, Iraqi forces backed by US troops have raided a major Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad. At least three people were killed and 40 arrested.
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Gunmen stormed a police station and bombed a Shia mosque in two simultaneous dawn attacks in Baghdad yesterday that left at least 30 Iraqis dead and several injured.
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Nepali authorities have clamped an indefinite curfew on Kathmandu and warned violators will be shot after furious mobs attacked a mosque and went on the rampage to protest against the killing of 12 Nepalis in Iraq.
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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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Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. soldiers, stormed one of the major Sunni Muslim mosques in Baghdad after Friday prayers, opening fire and killing at least three people, witnesses said. Another raid overnight at a hospital allegedly used by insurgents in Mosul led to three arrests, the military said.
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Violence continued in Baghdad one day after insurgents carried out a brazen attack on American troops.
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Iraqi insurgents launched a series of concerted attacks on security forces near Saddam Husseinâs hometown today, killing more than 20 people after Osama bin Laden again urged Muslims to wage holy war against US forces and their allies.
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BAGHDAD, June 15 -- Extremists demolished a Sunni mosque in Basra early Friday, prompting the government to impose an indefinite curfew in the southern port city. The strike was an apparent retaliation for Wednesday's attack on a Shiite shrine in Samarra.
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Violence flared in Iraq&#39;s restless Sunni Triangle yesterday when insurgents stormed two police stations in a brazen attempt to intimidate Sunni voters a day after Osama bin Laden
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An attack today on the mosque in the city of Kufa killed 25 people as Iraq&#39;s top Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, headed to nearby Najaf after a three-week absence, officials said by telephone.
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INSURGENTS in Iraq are continuing to pursue their deadly campaign against US troops and Iraqi security forces. Suicide car bombers struck Iraqi police and Kurdish militiamen in
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Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab neighborhood of Baghdad and burned mosques on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years of war that killed 202 in a Shi'ite area.
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Apparent retaliatory attacks in the aftermath of the bombing of the Al-Askariya Mosque -- a major Shiite shrine in Samarra -- have left six Sunni mosques badly damaged, police said Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 17 -- A suicide bomber killed at least eight people Thursday in front of a mosque in volatile Diyala province as worshipers gathered for a Shiite holiday, another sign of continuing unrest in northern Iraq despite the launch last week of a major U.S. offensive against Sunni insurgen...
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Hundreds of Iraqi troops backed by US forces stormed a Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, killing four people and wounding at least nine, witnesses and an influential group of Sunni clerics said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that incited insurgent violence.