Insurgents mortar bomb Shia shrine
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Insurgents in Iraq today blew up the two minarets of Samarra's al-Askari mosque, one of Shia Islam's most revered sites.
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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 call on his fighters to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities...
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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 meters (yards) of a besieged shrine  at the center of a near three-week insurgency.
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A suicide bomber detonated a huge device yesterday that ripped through a Shia mosque in Pakistan at prayer time, killing at least 16 and injuring dozens.
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NAJAF: Missiles damaged the outer wall of the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf as US planes pounded militia positions in the city on Monday.
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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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Explosions and gunfire have rocked the Iraqi city of Najaf, with US forces battling militants loyal to a Shiite cleric. Witnesses say the militants attacked US troops with mortar rounds and the troops fired back.
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Insurgents blew up the Askariya Mosque's remaining minarets in a reprise of a similar attack that badly damaged the holy Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra early last year, a police official told CNN.
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UNITED States tanks today encircled the sacred Imam Ali shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf, after an intense bombardment of rebel positions overnight.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Militiamen loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday removed their weapons from the revered Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf as a 2-week-old uprising centered on the holy site appeared to be drawing to an end.    Militants from al-Sadr's Mahdi Army had been using the shrine, one of the holiest in Shiite Islam, as a hideout while they attacked U.S...
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A rocket fired by Shi&#39;ite militants clipped the wall of the Imam Ali shrine in the city of Najaf on Tuesday and may have damaged the building, the US military said in a statement.
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At least 13 worshippers die in a car bombing at a Shia mosque in Iraq's capital, after threats of a long war from a militant leader.
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Iraqi Shia leaders linked to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr attack their former ally, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A mortar attack on the main 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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Several mortar bombs were heard landing in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Tuesday after Shi'ite rebels came under fierce U.S. bombardment overnight.
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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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Militants detonated a car bomb near a  Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, the Muslim holy day,  intensifying efforts to drive a wedge between Iraq's religious  communities ahead of elections nine days away.