Marriages Between Sects Come Under Siege in Iraq
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BAGHDAD -- The note was slipped under the door of May Mahmoud's shop. Neatly typed on a computer, it read: "You must leave your home. We give you three days. Or we will kill you." It was addressed to her husband.
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Some 2 million Iraqis have fled to neighboring countries in the past three years and up to 3,000 more go abroad every day, according to the U.N. refugee agency. But Umm Ali and her husband, Hussein Jawad, are among nearly 85,000 Iraqi Arabs who have sought refuge in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
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In west Baghdad&#39;s Omar al-Khattab mosque, a Sunni preacher assails his Shia compatriots for failing to come to the aid of the besieged city of Falluja.
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One Najaf family's shifting view of the fierce fighting that surrounds them.
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The events of the past month in Najaf have fallen hardest not on Moktada al-Sadr, but on the ordinary Iraqis who had been caught between two armies.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Renewed fighting between Shi'ite militants and US and Iraqi forces appeared likely here after talks between rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi government collapsed yesterday, raising fears of a climactic showdown in one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest cities.
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Forced from their Baghdad home by sectarian violence, an Iraqi Christian couple in their 70s have spent the past two years bounced between detention centers in Greece and Belgium, terrified of being forced back to Iraq.
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Jassim al-Kinani, a 34-year-old car mechanic, did all he could to follow Shiite Muslim traditions when his brother and three cousins were slain. But like so much in Iraq, the rituals of death have been knocked awry by violence.
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Clashes break out in the southern Iraqi city of Basra between police and members of a Shia cult, officials say.
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The Iraqis who signed up to help the Americans are losing faithâand often their lives. One family's story.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A delegation of Iraqis meant to help negotiate an end to an uprising in Najaf was forced to delay its mission Tuesday when it could not get a military escort for the dangerous journey to meet the radical cleric at the center of the standoff in the holy city.    It was an embarrassing turn of events for Iraqi leaders seeking a political victory to give them credibility as they try to chart the country's new course and end the fighting in Najaf - their worst crisis since taking power in the end of June...
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It's not easy to find romance in a conservative Muslim country torn by war. Here's how some young Iraqis are trying
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The move marked a major agreement among the countryâs ethnic and sectarian political blocs on one of Iraqâs most divisive issues.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- A Shi'ite Muslim insurgency appeared to be weakening last night as Iraqi forces moved to within 200 yards of the revered Imam Ali Shrine and Iraq's defense minister once again demanded fighters loyal to a radical cleric surrender or face a violent raid.
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At least six people are killed in clashes between police and members of an Shia cult in southern Iraq, officials say.
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Iraq may already be in a civil war or just on the brink of one. But whatever it is, the focus is Baghdad, where all aspects of life are ever more disrupted by sectarian violence and its people ever more weary and afraid.
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This week's intense clashes between the Iraqi army and a Shiite militia are part of a strategy to whittle away the power of a radical cleric. But the high-risk gambit could trigger more fighting across the Shiite south &#151; at a time when the cleric's stronghold in the capital is virtually off-limits.