Iraq blasts mar Muslim holy feast
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Insurgents in Iraq carry out a series of bomb attacks to coincide with the start of the holy month of Ramadan.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Muslims in Iraq and worldwide have spent the weekend celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The feast of Eid ul-Fitr follows a month of daylight fasting.
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Bomb attacks killed 59 people and wounded more than 120 across Iraq on Wednesday when suspected al Qaeda militants stepped up a campaign of violence coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 -- A series of separate bomb and gun attacks killed dozens of Shiite worshippers in Iraq on Tuesday, a day after Iraqi and U.S. forces disrupted what they said was a major plot to target Shiite pilgrims and leaders as they mark the high point of their religious calendar.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 25 -- A bomb placed beneath a parked car exploded outside a prominent Shiite shrine in Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least five people at the start of a major religious ceremony, U.S. military officials said.
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A suicide bomber killed nine people during celebrations to mark Army Day in the eastern Baghdad suburb of Karrada on Sunday, the latest in an upsurge of suicide bombings in Iraq.
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At least 67 people were killed and many injured when a car bomb hit the Iraqi holy cities of Karbala and Najaf on Sunday. In Najaf, at least 51 people were killed when a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle
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A bomb killed 26 people in a Shi'ite   Muslim stronghold in east Baghdad on Saturday as Iraq's   minority Sunnis began the fasting month of Ramadan, which U.S.   commanders have warned may see a rise in sectarian bloodshed.
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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 around 160 people in two days of attacks blamed by the government on Sunni militants.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - A bomb exploded near the offices  of a senior Shi'ite cleric in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on  Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 32, police and  doctors said.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 20 -- A suicide bomber strapped with explosives struck a group of American soldiers standing outside a city council meeting north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least six people, including one of the soldiers, and marring the celebrations of a major Muslim holiday.
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BAGHDAD - As top Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim leaders broke their Ramadan fast together in a symbolic show of unity yesterday, a suicide bomber struck in their midst, killing as many as 25 people and injuring 40 in Baqubah.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - A bomb exploded near the office  of a senior Shi'ite cleric in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on  Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 32 in a failed  attempt on the cleric's life, officials said.
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims streaming toward a shrine south of Baghdad, killing 93 people
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Mortars killed eight people as   hundreds of thousands of pilgrims converged on an Iraqi holy   city on Friday for a religious festival where Shi'ite leaders   renewed demands for sweeping new powers in their region.
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Suicide car bombers hit Iraq's two main Shi'ite holy cities, Kerbala and Najaf, killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens more Sunday, six weeks to the day before an historic election.
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A truck bomber attacked a revered Shiite shrine in the heart of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 78 people and wounding more than 200 in a resumption of Iraq's relentless sectarian slaughter. The mosque's turquoise dome survived, but the blast buried some worshippers and badly burned others.