Attacks as Shia mark Ashura
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At least 40 people die in attacks across Iraq at the climax of the Shia Muslim religious festival of Ashura.
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The attacks were aimed at reigniting a cycle of sectarian retribution as hundreds of thousands of Shiites made their pilgrimage to Karbala.
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AT LEAST 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in a double bomb attack at a religious commemoration in Pakistan yesterday, the nationâs second suspected sectarian attack in less than a week.
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An ethnic Baluchi opposition group claimed responsibility for the attack today, a semi-official news agency said.
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The attack, the deadliest in Iraq in months, occurred in a southern city where rival Shiite groups have been battling for power.
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Sectarian violence is suspected in an attack in central Pakistan that has killed at least 34 people and injured dozens more. Two bombs exploded at a gathering of Islamic radicals in the central Pakistan city of Multan.
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MULTAN (Pakistan) - A leader of a radical Sunni group blamed yesterday&#39;s bombings at a religious gathering on radical Shi&#39;ite Muslims.
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Iraq's Shiite prime minister said Friday hard-line Sunni clerics outside Iraq share the blame for this week's bloodshed at a Shiite religious festival in Karbala because they issued religious decrees terming Shiites heretics.
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Two suicide bombers attack a group of Shia pilgrims in central Iraq, killing at least eight people, police say.
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A Shiite Muslim was ambushed as he drove through this once serene Himalayan tourist destination Saturday, sparking a rampage of sectarian violence and arson that left at least 11 people dead, including a family of six that was burned alive in its home.
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The attacks, which wounded another 155, came on the anniversary of the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra.
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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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Sunday&#39;s bombings in Shiite holy cities - the deadliest insurgent attacks since July - appeared aimed at sparking sectarian strife.
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Intensified insurgent attacks on Shiite holy cities have sparked renewed fears of sectarian strife.
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A suicide car bomber killed at least 13 Shi'ites northeast of Baghdad and gunmen shot dead nine people in a Shi'ite bakery in the capital in the latest sectarian attacks following the Jan. 30 election.
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NAJAF/MOSUL, AUGUST 22: US helicopter gunships pounded Shiâite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine at the centre of a near three-week insurgency.
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[World News]: Karbala (Baghdad), Dec. 19 : Powerful car bomb blasts have killed and injured dozens of people in the Iraqi Shia cities of Najaf and Karbala.