Insurgents Burn Homes in Shiite Area
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BAGHDAD, March 12 -- The armed men who entered a village in Diyala province Saturday after sunset seized the residents' weapons and made a request that turned out to be an ultimatum.
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A vegetable truck rigged with explosives blew up Friday outside a Shiite mosque northeast of Baghdad, and gunmen sprayed automatic fire into a bakery in a Shiite district of the capital in sectarian violence that killed at least 23 people.
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Intensified insurgent attacks on Shiite holy cities have sparked renewed fears of sectarian strife.
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Insurgents unleashed attacks yesterday that killed at least 19 Iraqis in Samarra and wounded 20 US troops near Ramadi, in an apparent attempt to spread fighting across the Sunni Muslim heartland ahead of a US assault on their Fallujah stronghold that appeared imminent.
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Gunmen attacked a Sunni enclave in a mainly Shi'ite district in Baghdad on Friday, burning four mosques and homes, an Interior Ministry official said.
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U.S. jets pounded suspected Shiite militant positions in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 40. Elsewhere, insurgents detonated a car bomb and fired rockets, killing at least four National Guardsmen, in separate attacks targeting Iraq's beleaguered security forces.
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Insurgents launched two major attacks Friday against a Shiite mosque and a police station in Baghdad, killing 30 people including at least 16 police officers, the deadliest insurgent violence in weeks.
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Sunni residents in a volatile northwest Baghdad neighborhood claimed Friday that revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen had destroyed four Sunni mosques, burned homes and killed many people, while the Shiite-dominated police force stood by and did nothing.
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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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21 October 2004 -- The US military continued efforts yesterday to disrupt insurgency in the Iraqi city of Al-Fallujah by bombing two houses that US officials claim belonged to followers of Jordanian-born militant leader Abu Mus&#39;ab al-Zarqawi.
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The attack, the deadliest in Iraq in months, occurred in a southern city where rival Shiite groups have been battling for power.
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A suicide car bomber blasted an American convoy north of Baghdad and U.S. troops battled insurgents west of the capital Wednesday as a wave of violence across Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland killed at least 27 people.
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Gunmen killed dozens of people and burned mosques in a Sunni Arab enclave in Baghdad on Friday and clashes broke out in a Shi'ite district where car bombs killed 202 in the bloodiest bombing of the war on Thursday.
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Insurgents in Iraq kill at least 11 people by locking them into a house and blowing it up, the US military says.
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BAGHDAD, IraqÃÂ  -- A series of attacks killed at least 51 people across Iraq Thursday, including 43 within a half hour in a Shiite section of Baghdad, officials said. Scores were wounded in the attacks, part of a violent week that has seen hundreds slain.
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Car bombs triggered gas explosions in a Shiite neighborhood two days ago, the U.S. said Tuesday, acknowledging that the attack was due to a hostile act.
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A suicide car bomber turned a venerable book market into a deadly inferno and gunmen targeted Shiite pilgrims Monday as suspected Sunni insurgents brought major bloodshed back into the lap of their main Shiite rivals. At least 38 people died in the blast and seven pilgrims were killed.