Fighting, Artillery Barrage Rocks Iraqi Shrine
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. marines and Shi'ite militiamen  fought fierce battles around a shrine in the Iraqi city of  Najaf on Monday in some of the heaviest fighting since the  20-day-old rebellion erupted.
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NAJAF (Iraq) - US helicopter gunships pounded supporters of Moqtada Al Sadr in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf yesterday as tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine at the centre of a near three-week insurgency.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Sporadic gunfire echoed through Najaf on Friday after a night of heavy U.S. bombing that saw radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr order his fighters to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes, artillery and  marines engaged Shi'ite militiamen in a fierce battle around a  shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Monday in some of the  heaviest fighting since the 20-day-old rebellion erupted.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. helicopter gunships pounded  Shi'ite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as  tanks rumbled to within 800 yards of a besieged shrine at the  center of a near three-week insurgency.
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U.S. forces continued to battle militiamen in neighborhoods around the sacred Imam Ali shrine on Wednesday as the Iraqi defense minister warned that a "decisive battle" would commence if the Mahdi Army of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr did not surrender.
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BAGHDAD, June 13 -- Early morning blasts Wednesday destroyed two minarets at the same Shiite shrine in Samarra where an attack last year demolished the mosque's gilded dome and plunged the country into a wave of deadly sectarian violence.
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NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces battled militants Tuesday in Najaf, sending plumes of black smoke over the holy city as Iraq's government warned fighters loyal to a radical cleric "they have hours to surrender" in their weekslong standoff inside the Imam Ali Shrine or face attack...
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The two minarets of the al-Askari shrine in Iraq, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, are damaged by several explosions, officials say.
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US marines and Shi&#39;ite militiamen fought fierce battles around a shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Monday in some of the heaviest fighting since the 20-day-old rebellion erupted.
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Iraqi forces today joined US troops in the battle with rebel militia in the holy city of Najaf. There was fierce fighting as the joint forces moved to within 200 metres of the Imam Ali shrine, where militiamen
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U.S. marines engaged in heavy clashes  with scores of insurgents near a mosque in western Iraq on  Monday, leading to U.S. air strikes which damaged the shrine  and left it ablaze, the U.S. military said.
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Strong explosions shook central Baghdad at dawn on Sunday and heavy fighting erupted in a street notorious as a rebel stronghold, in violence that killed at least eight Iraqis, the U.S. army and witnesses said.
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Militant supporters of radical Iraqi Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr kept their hold on a sacred religious shrine Sunday as fighting flared around the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad.
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U.S. aircraft and tanks pounded Shi'ite militia positions around a holy shrine and ancient cemetery in Najaf early on Friday, witnesses said.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Explosions and gunfire shook Najaf's Old City on Sunday in a fierce battle between U.S. forces and Shiite militants, as negotiations dragged on for the handover of the shrine that the fighters have used for their stronghold...
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Renewed heavy fighting is reported to have broken out Wednesday in the Iraqi city of Najaf between US-led forces and militiamen loyal to radical Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.