Shia holy day in Iraq marred by violence
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Some two million pilgrims today marched through Karbala to mark Ashura, one of the holiest events in the Shia Muslim calendar, as 68 people were killed in clashes with Iraqi troops
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The anniversary of Saddam Hussein&#39;s capture was marked with a day of violence when a suicide car bomber struck in Baghdad yesterday killing at least 13 people.
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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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Suspected Shia militants set fire to six Sunni mosques in Iraq in the 24 hours after an attack on a major Shia shrine.
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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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More than two dozen Iraqis were killed and many more wounded Thursday in two separate assaults hours before Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, arrived in this holy city to lead the march for peace they were planning to attend.
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Suicide car bombers struck in the Iraqi Shia holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala yesterday, killing more than 60 people and injuring about 130 in a day of carnage ahead of next month&#39;s general election.
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BAGHDAD, Sept 22: Baghdad was engulfed in violence on Wednesday as 21 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in a car bomb attack and US-led offensives on Shia and Sunni rebel pockets in the capital.
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BAGHDAD - Explosions hit five churches in Baghdad, and two US Army helicopters crashed elsewhere in the capital, killing two American soldiers and wounding two others, as violence flared while Iraqi Muslims began marking the holy month of Ramadan.
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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.
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Car bombings Sunday hit the Iraqi Shiite Muslim holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, causing dozens of casualties. The Najaf bombing occurred just yards from the Imam Ali shrine and killed at least 10 people, CNN reported.
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Sniper attacks on a Shiite religious procession killed 10 pilgrims and injured 43 in Baghdad on Sunday. Four suspected gunmen were shot dead by police, officials said.
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BAGHDAD -- A bomb killed at least 37 Shi'ites in Baghdad yesterday 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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[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.
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Car bombings shook the streets leading to Baghdad's most revered Shiite Muslim shrine on Wednesday, and police reported at least seven people killed and 27 others wounded.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Explosions hit five churches in Baghdad, and two U.S. Army helicopters crashed elsewhere in the capital, killing two American soldiers and wounding two others, as violence flared while Iraqi Muslims began marking the holy month of Ramadan...
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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.