Several Mosques Attacked, but Iraq Is Mostly Calm
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Four Sunni mosques were attacked today following yesterdayâs explosions at a revered Shiite shrine, but calm prevailed after curfews were imposed.
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Iraqis slowly began returning to the streets of Baghdad when a curfew was lifted on Sunday, four days after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite Muslim mosque to the south sparked fears of reprisal sectarian attacks.
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Car bombers struck crowds in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 61 people and wounding about 120 in the two holy Shiite cities only days into Iraq&#39;s six-week election campaign.
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Iraqi soldiers and US troops Tuesday targeted seven mosques in Ramadi in a bid to roust insurgents and their weaponry, CNN reported.
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Three Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and burned by unidentified gunmen south of Baghdad early on Thursday, police said, a day after suspected al Qaeda militants blew up the minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque.
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US and Iraqi forces secured more than three quarters of Mosul&#39;s police stations as calm prevailed following last week&#39;s flare up in violence that saw insurgents raid police buildings in the city, the US military said.
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The attack, after a few weeks of relative quiet, raised fears that insurgents were resuming their campaign of suicide bombings.
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The fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed man in a Fallujah mosque by a U.S. Marine angered Sunni Muslims in Iraq on Tuesday and raised questions about the protection of insurgents once they are out of action.
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BAGHDAD -- At least 60 Iraqi civilians were killed and scores more wounded yesterday in a series of ferocious bomb and gun attacks targeting mostly Shi'ite areas of the capital, ending days of relative calm since the start of the latest US-Iraqi effort to quell violence and restore order.
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BAGHDAD -- In attacks targeting Iraq's major Shi'ite Muslim cities, car bombs in Najaf and Karbala killed at least 62 people yesterday and wounded 120, threatening to inflame sectarian anger as the nation prepares for elections next month.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 17 -- A suicide bomber killed at least eight people Thursday in front of a mosque in volatile Diyala province as worshipers gathered for a Shiite holiday, another sign of continuing unrest in northern Iraq despite the launch last week of a major U.S. offensive against Sunni insurgen...
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Some of the deadliest attacks against mosques in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003:
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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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More than 20 people are killed in Iraq in attacks outside a Shia mosque and on a Baghdad bakery.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that incited insurgent violence.
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The attack signaled that the cycle of violence following the destruction a Shiite shrine has not entirely unfolded.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 24 -- In a wave of reprisal killings, Shiite militiamen attacked Sunni mosques in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq on Friday, defying a government curfew and propelling the country further toward full-blown civil war.