Mortar hits mosque in Iraqi city of Kufa
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A mortar shell hit a mosque in Iraqi city of Kufa on Thursday, causing many casualties, witnesses said. The mosque was crowded with men when the mortar attack took place.
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Iraqi forces backed by US troops left a mosque they were raiding for suspected insurgents in Mosul on Friday after coming under fire, witnesses said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A mortar attack on a packed mosque  in the town of Kufa on Thursday killed at least 25 people as  Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric headed to the nearby  holy city of Najaf to try to end a bloody three-week uprising.
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Iraqi police fired warning shots and barred vehicle traffic leading to Kufa on Friday, fearing an outbreak of violence as hundreds of worshippers descended on the holy city for the first weekly prayers since ...
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KUFA, Iraq - A mortar barrage slammed into a mosque filled with Iraqis preparing to march on the embattled city of Najaf, killing 27 people and wounding 63 Thursday, while the nation's top Shiite cleric arrived at the gates of the holy city in a massive convoy hoping to end three weeks of fighting.  ..
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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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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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Eight Iraqi National Guard members have been wounded in a mortar attack on their base in Baghdad, police said. Police said five mortars landed on the base in the al-Waziriya neighborhood of the capital on Thursday.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A mortar attack on a police station  in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on Thursday killed five people  and wounded 21 others, police said.
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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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NAJAF, Iraq  - A senior commander of Shi'ite  militants holed up inside a Najaf shrine said the wall of the  mosque was hit by U.S. fire on Sunday night.
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A series of mortars or rockets slammed into the U.S.-controlled Green Zone on Thursday, and an official said at least one round struck a parking lot used by the Iraqi prime minister and his security detail.
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A bomb exploded on Wednesday near a shrine in Iraq&#39;s Karbala, killing 7 people and injuring more than 30 others, said reports reaching here from the Shiite holy city.
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A rocket fired by Shi'ite militants  clipped the wall of the Imam Ali shrine in the city of Najaf on  Tuesday and may have damaged the building, the U.S. military  said in a statement.
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BAGHDAD, June 16 -- Another Sunni mosque in the Basra area of southern Iraq was destroyed Saturday, as a leading Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, called on his followers to march to the Sunni town of Samarra next month to a revered Shiite shrine that was attacked Wednesday.
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Iraqi troops backed by US forces have raided a Sunni mosque in the Iraqi capital, killing at least two people. On Thursday, the Iraqi interim government warned that Islamic clerics who incite
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Samarraâs Golden Mosque was hit by explosions Wednesday, prompting fears of an escalation in sectarian violence.