Pilgrims flee Iraq city as gunbattles rage
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday as a battle raged between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - More than a million Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims poured into Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, defying insurgents who killed 155 people in two days in attacks blamed by the government on Sunni militants.
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Insurgents ambushed Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, killing five and wounding 10, a police source said, the day after scores of pilgrims died in a string of attacks.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims defied bombers and gunmen to flock to the holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, the day after scores were killed in a string of attacks.
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The vicar of Iraq's last Anglican parish flees  after threatening leaflets are dropped in Baghdad.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Thousands of pilgrims streamed into the Imam Ali Shrine on Friday, and militants who had been holed up in the site left it, handing the keys to Shiite religious authorities after Iraq's top Shiite cleric brokered a peace deal to end three weeks of fighting in this holy city.    Dozens of militants piled Kalashnikov rifles in front of the offices of their leader, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr...
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Sunni insurgents have been streaming out of Baghdad to escape the security crackdown, carrying the fight to neighboring Diyala province where direct fire attacks on Americans have nearly doubled since last summer, U.S. soldiers say.
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Scores of Shi&#39;ite militiamen took to the streets of the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, brandishing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades and demanding US-led forces pull out of Najaf.
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Thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims set off for Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Sunday, demonstrating their political power but aware of the threat of bomb attacks ahead of one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest days.
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Shi'ite fighters left the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf Friday and began turning in their weapons, after tens of thousands of pilgrims celebrated a peace agreement that ended a bloody rebellion.
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Millions of Shiites are making a pilgrimage to Karbala, Iraq, this weekend, despite the threat of snipers and suicide bombers.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Gunmen battled Iraqi security forces on Tuesday near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines in the city of Kerbala, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims had gathered for a religious festival.
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A quarter of a million Iraqis have fled   their homes and registered as refugees in the past seven   months, data released on Thursday showed, amid an upsurge in   violence that has accompanied the Ramadan holy month.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Local authorities began evacuating hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday as a battle raged between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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Thousands of pilgrims streamed into the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf yesterday as militants left, handing the keys to religious authorities after Iraq&#39;s top Shia cleric
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday ahead of the climax of a holy festival for Shi'ite Muslims, security officials said.
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Explosions and gunfire broke out Monday in Baqouba - the latest in a wave of clashes that has swept Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland even as U.S. and Iraqi forces move against the last remaining pockets of ...