Militants fire on Shiite pilgrims, killing 1
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Militants opened fire on unarmed Shiite pilgrims traveling south of Baghdad on a religious trek to Karbala, killing one woman and wounding six other people -- including women and children -- on Sunday, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official told CNN.
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Insurgents kidnapped a Catholic archbishop and targeted security forces in a series of brazen assaults Monday that killed more than 20 people. A suicide bomber attacked U.S. Marines in Ramadi, where insurgents also beheaded two Shiite Muslims and left their bodies on a sidewalk.
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Insurgents ambushed Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, killing five and wounding 10, a police source said.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates  - An Islamic militant  group said in an Internet statement Tuesday it had beheaded an  Iraqi Shi'ite and follower of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  because he had been spying for U.S. forces.
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The U.S. military said it killed about 26 militants believed to have ties to "Iranian terror networks" in the early hours of Saturday in the Baghdad Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City.
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BAGHDAD -- Bombers struck Shi'ite worshipers in two cities yesterday and gunmen ambushed a busload of pilgrims in a series of attacks that killed at least 58 people as more than 2 million Shi'ites jammed major shrines for ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day of the Shi'ite calendar.
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A bomb claimed by a Sunni Arab extremist group killed at least 37 Shiites in Baghdad on Saturday as they stocked up on fuel for Ramadan, just days after the U.S. military warned that sectarian bloodshed could worsen during the Islamic holy month.
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An alleged al-Qaida militant was executed for his role in one of the first and bloodiest bombings in Iraq, a 2003 blast that killed Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and 84 other people, a Justice Ministry official said Friday.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 19 -- At least nine people were killed in mortar and bomb attacks in northern Iraq on Saturday as millions of pilgrims celebrated the holiest day of the Shiite calendar.
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Three separate bombings killed at least 16 people Sunday, and gunmen shot to death a Shiite tribal sheikh active in an effort to counter militias in his northeastern Baghdad neighborhood, Iraqi officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed seven people outside one of southern Iraq&#39;s holiest shrines Wednesday as campaigning began for Iraq&#39;s first post-Saddam elections - a vote that is going ahead despite suicide attacks and
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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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At least one Iraqi has been killed apparently heeding a top cleric&#39;s call to march to Najaf, where clashes go on between US-led forces and Shia militia.
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A bomb exploded at the gate of a revered Shiite shrine Wednesday, killing seven people in an apparent attempt to kill an aide to Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric and casting
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Insurgents detonated a roadside bomb in the central Iraq city of Samarra and mortar rounds landed near a U.S. military outpost in violence that killed one and injured three others, including two children, police said Tuesday.
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A group of suspected militants armed with M-16 assault rifles attacked an army unit protecting Buddhist monks at a temple in Thailand&#39;s southernmost province of Narathiwat early Friday, killing one soldier, police said.
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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.