Calm urged after Iraq shrine hit
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Political and religious leaders in Iraq call for calm after bombers strike one of Shia Islam's holiest sites.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Militants filed out of the Imam Ali Shrine, closed the doors behind them and turned over the keys to Iraq's top Shiite cleric Friday, symbolizing their acceptance of a peace deal to end three weeks of devastating fighting in this holy city.    By Friday afternoon, dozens of Iraqi police and national guardsmen surrounded the shrine compound - many kissing its doors and weeping - as the government began to re-establish control over the Old City of Najaf...
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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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BAGHDAD, Nov. 26 -- Gunfights broke out and mortar shells came crashing down on parts of the capital Sunday despite a three-day-old curfew and appeals for calm from Iraq's top Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political leaders.
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Iraqi Shia leaders appealed to their supporters to show restraint yesterday after two deadly blasts targeted their religious centres in an apparent attempt to trigger civil war.
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Iraq News, BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least eight people were killed and 32 injured Wednesday when a bomb exploded at the gate to one of Shiite Islam&#39;s holiest shrines, hospital officials said.
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[World News] Najaf, Aug 26 : At least 25 people were killed and over 60 wounded when mortars slammed into a mosque where thousands of supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had gathered in the southern Iraqi town of Kufa Thursday, Xinhua reports
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An Iraqi political campaign colored by hope but tempered by worry began yesterday with a bomb blast that killed at least seven people outside one of southern Iraq&#39;s holiest shrines.
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Four Sunni mosques were attacked today following yesterdayâs explosions at a revered Shiite shrine, but calm prevailed after curfews were imposed.
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AGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 17  A delegation of Iraqis was delayed for security reasons today but still intended to visit Najaf to try to convince a rebellious Shiite cleric and his militia to evacuate a shrine in the holy city and end ...
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NAJAF, Iraq - Militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr kept their hold on a revered shrine, and clashes flared in Najaf on Saturday, raising fears that a resolution to the crisis in the holy city could collapse amid bickering between Shiite leaders.    The clashes between U.S...
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Calm reigned in Najaf Friday, as Shi&#39;ite militants abandoned the holy Imam Ali shrine in accordance with a peace deal brokered by Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other high ranking officials sought to reassure Iraqis after Fridayâs pet market bombings.
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One of Iraqâs most sacred Shiite shrines, the Imam al-Askari mosque in Samarra, was attacked and severely damaged again today, just over a year after the previous attack on the site unleashed a tide of national sectarian bloodletting.
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NAJAF, Iraq - War-weary Iraqis returned to devastated offices and shops in the holy city of Najaf on Saturday after three weeks of clashes as U.S. forces monitored a fragile cease-fire, but violence persisted in Baghdad, killing at least five 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 suicide car bomber killed 14 Shi'ite  worshippers as they left a Baghdad mosque on Friday, a Muslim  holy day, ratcheting up tension between Iraq's religious  communities just nine days before landmark elections.