Najaf car bomb kills 30
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Najaf - Thirty people were killed in a car bomb blast on Sunday near a major religious shrine in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf, a hospital official said, shortly after a similar attack in the sister city of Karbala.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  -- A car bomb exploded near a police station in the Iraqi capital early Tuesday, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
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A bomb exploded at the gate of one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding 31 others, including a top aide of Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, officials said.
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Two people have reportedly been killed and another two injured after a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Meanwhile, fierce fighting has continued overnight in Najaf around the shrine used by rebels loyal to Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Three mortar bombs hit a police  station in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Thursday, causing  many casualties, police said.
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ISLAMABAD, 2 October 2004 - A suspected suicide bomb blast ripped through a Shiite mosque during Friday prayers in Sialkot, 170 kilometers southeast of here, killing at least 30 people and leaving dozens injured, sources said.
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At least 30 explosions shook Najaf&#39;s Old City late on Thursday as a US plane hit militant targets east of the Imam Ali shrine.
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Blood and shrapnel covered the grounds of the ancient Kufa mosque compound Thursday after at least two mortar blasts ripped through a crowd of Iraqis gathered to march to the holy city of Najaf, killing at least 27 people and wounding at least 63.
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A car bomb killed five people on Saturday between the Iraqi Shi&#39;ite holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala, sites of twin suicide car bombings a week ago, the chief of police in Najaf said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint near a busy market in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf on Wednesday, killing 11 people, a doctor at a local hospital said.
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A car bomb exploded in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Thursday, wounding around 30 people, including military personnel, news reports said.
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67 people are dead after separate suicide car bombings in the cities of Najaf and Karbala. Analysts say the bombers could be attempting to spark a civil war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, since a large majority of Shiites populate the two holy cities.
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KUFA, Iraq - A mortar barrage slammed into a mosque filled Iraqis preparing to march on the embattled city of Najaf, killing 27 people and wounding 63 here Thursday hours before the nation's top Shiite cleric was expected to arrive in area with a peace initiative.    The attack on the main mosque in Kufa - just a few miles from Najaf - dampened renewed hopes for a rapid resolution to the three-week crisis in Najaf...
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Police in the Iraqi city of Najaf say at least three civilians have been killed in a car bombing Saturday, less than a week after an attack there killed 52 people.
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KARBALA, Iraq, Dec 20  - A bomb exploded Monday on the western outskirts of Karbala, causing no casualties, Iraqi police said, one day after car bombs in Karbala and in its sister shrine city of Najaf killed 66 people.
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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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A car bomb exploded Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing five Iraqis and wounding 15 others, the US military said. The announcement added that the blast occurred at about 10:30 am (local time