Mortar shells hit mosque in old Iraq city
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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
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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 rocket fired by Shi&#39;ite militants clipped the wall of the Imam Ali shrine in the city of Najaf on Tuesday and may have damaged the building, the US military said in a statement.
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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 and wounding 63.    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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BAGHDAD - More than 100 Iraqis were killed or wounded during a mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said on Tuesday.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine bombed last year in an attack that sparked a wave of sectarian killing.
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US and Iraqi forces have shelled insurgent targets in the Iraqi city of Fallujah following a lull in fighting overnight. Witnesses say troops fired a barrage of mortar shells Saturday, in Fallujah&#39;s Jolan district in the northwest.
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Iraqi officials say insurgents fired mortars at an Iraqi National Guard headquarters in al-Mushahida,) north of Baghdad Tuesday. News reports say there were heavy casualties, but no figure was immediately available.
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The two minarets of one of Iraq's holiest Shia sites are damaged by explosions, officials in Samarra say.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fierce fighting broke out around a  shrine in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf Monday, and pieces of  shrapnel landed in the courtyard of the mosque held by  followers of a radical Shi'ite cleric, Reuters witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, June 16 -- Another Sunni mosque was destroyed in the southern port city of Basra on Saturday, as a leading Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, called for his followers to march north to the Sunni town of Samarra next month to visit a revered Shiite shrine that was attacked Wednesday.
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northern city of Mosul and insurgents have fired mortar bombs at a police academy in eastern Baghdad. The Interior Ministry said there were no casualties in the mortar attack in Baghdad.
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Several mortar bombs were heard landing in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Tuesday after Shi'ite rebels came under fierce U.S. bombardment overnight.
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KUFA, Iraq  - A mortar attack on the crowded main  mosque in the Iraqi town of Kufa left "many dead" on Thursday,  an interior ministry spokesman said.
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Mortar rounds exploded in five places in central Baghdad today, killing two Iraqis and wounding 14 in disparate attacks that underscored the capital&#39;s vulnerability as the January elections approach.
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Mortar attacks hit a central Baghdad hospital Saturday, killing an employee and injuring three others, officials said. A mortar round exploded in the garden of the Ibn al-Betar hospital
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Shooting broke out at a mosque in  the northern city of Mosul on Friday during a raid by U.S.  troops and Iraqi National Guards, witnesses said.