Militants target Najaf police chief
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Militants had just kidnapped and dragged his ailing 80-year-old father through the streets. They also beat his brothers until they collapsed. Forty of his men were killed, and several were beheaded.
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Explosions and gunfire have rocked the Iraqi city of Najaf, with US forces battling militants loyal to a Shiite cleric. Witnesses say the militants attacked US troops with mortar rounds and the troops fired back.
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Iraqi troops could raid Najaf's holy Imam Ali Shrine as early as Wednesday in a final push to root out Shiite militants hiding there while they battle U.S. forces, Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan said.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Followers loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Friday they were prepared to hand control of the revered Imam Ali Shrine to top Shiite religious authorities, and Iraq's interim prime minister said he would not storm the holy site.    The moves came after a day and night of fighting in Najaf that killed 77 people and wounded 70 others, as al-Sadr militiamen mortared a police station and U.S...
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NAJAF, IraqâUS forces launched a fresh assault on Shiite rebels in the city of Najaf today after talks on transferring control of the mosque at the centre of a two-week siege ran into difficulties.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 3 - Heavily armed insurgents launched attacks here and in the northern city of Mosul on Friday morning, striking at police stations, military bases and a Shiite mosque.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's government warned Shi'ite  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday he would face a military  strike within hours unless he ended an uprising, disarmed his  militia and quit a shrine in the city of Najaf.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's top Shiite cleric made a dramatic return to Najaf at the head of a massive convoy Thursday hoping to end three weeks of fighting in the holy city, but hours earlier a mortar barrage slammed into a mosque filled with Iraqis preparing to join his march, killing 27 people.    Along with the mortar attack, another group of thousands of marchers heading into Najaf from its sister-city Kufa came under fire from an Iraqi National Guard base...
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister has issued a &quot;final call&quot; for Shiite militants in the city of Najaf to leave a shrine they have been occupying for weeks. The statement comes a day after their leader, radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, sent word that he was ...
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Gunmen still patrol the centre of Iraq's holy city of Najaf  after 16 days of fighting and delicate talks.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi made a "final call" Thursday to Shiite militants in Najaf to disarm and withdraw from a revered shrine or face a massive onslaught by Iraqi forces to root them out.    The last-ditch warning came shortly after the militants' leader, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, rejected those demands with a vow to seek "martyrdom or victory." Just hours before al-Sadr's defiant statement, fighters presumably from his Mahdi Army militia bombarded a Najaf police station with mortar rounds, killing seven policemen and injuring 31...
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A suicide car bomber targeted the headquarters of Iraq&#39;s main Shi&#39;ite Muslim political party on Monday in what its leader called an assassination attempt
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US forces in the Iraqi  city of Najaf carry out  an overnight assault on militia loyal to Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.
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At least one Iraqi has been killed apparently heeding a top cleric&#39;s call to march to Najaf, where clashes go on between US-led forces and Shia militia.
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NAJAF, Iraq - US and Iraqi forces battled militants in Najaf today, as Iraqi National Guardsmen advanced to within 200 yards of the holy city&#39;s Imam Ali shrine compound, where insurgents loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been holed up for weeks
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An Iraqi rebel group has seized four  Iraqi policemen in Najaf and threatened to kill them unless  police agree to stop hunting insurgents and pressuring rebel  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Al Jazeera television said Friday.
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With the fighting here moving into the 12th day, Iraqi police in Najaf find themselves caught in the cross hairs of a deadly insurgency.