Security Tightened in Iraq's Kerbala After Blast
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police reinforcements and  National Guards were deployed to the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala  on Thursday, a day after a bomb blast killed 10 and wounded  more than 30, including a senior Shi'ite cleric.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after a fierce gunbattle between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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AUSTRALIAN troops in Iraq have stepped up security after the devastating pre-Christmas attack that killed 22 US soldiers and several civilian workers.
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A deadly explosion Saturday morning in Kirkuk has targeted men signing up for the Iraqi national guard. The car bomb happened beside a lineup near the headquarters for the guard, killing 20 people and wounding 16 others.
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U.S. forces will turn over security to Iraqi authorities in the southern Shiite province of Karbala on Monday, the American commander for the area said, despite fighting between rival militia factions that has killed dozens.
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US forces in Iraq tightened their cordon around the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah as the Red Cross and Iraqi government dispatched aid packages for the city.
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The US steps up security in Baghdad after bombs kill 10 people inside the city's heavily-fortified Green Zone.
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Iraqis carry shoulders high a masked gunman in front of a burning pick-up truck of the Iraqi National Guard in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday Dec. 9, 2004 after it was hit by a roadside bomb.
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The U.S. military reassessed security  at bases across Iraq on Thursday after 22 people were killed in  a suspected suicide bombing at an army camp, the deadliest  attack on Americans in the war-torn country.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala as 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi'ite rite on Saturday, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities.
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Iraqi civil defense workers carry a body of one of the victims of a deadly suicide bombing in Kirkuk, Sept. 18. (Xinhua/AFP Photo).
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Iraq wants to tighten control over security contractors after a deadly shooting incident involving the U.S. firm Blackwater, ending their long immunity from Iraqi prosecution, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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NAJAF, Iraq Checkpoints and other beefed-up security measures are in place as families of the latest car-bomb victims prepare for funerals in Najaf (NAH&#39;-jahf) and Karbala (KAHR&#39;-bah-lah).
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Security has been beefed up in the countryâs points of entry following Sundayâs mysterious explosion at Nairobiâs busy Wilson Airport.
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A bomb exploded near the offices of a senior Shi'ite cleric in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 32, police and doctors said.
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AUSTRALIA yesterday tightened security at airports and set up a 24-hour federal police operations centre amid fears terrorists could strike again in the wake of the Jakarta embassy bombing.
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- The State Department's second in command said yesterday that Syria had improved security along its border with Iraq but needed to do more to keep armed supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from sneaking across.