As Sunnis Flee, Shiites Now Dominate Baghdad
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Shiites now dominate the once mixed capital, and there is little chance of reversing the process.
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Many Iraqis who fled Baghdad are beginning to return, unaware of what awaits them in a city altered in the sectarian warfare.
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Four Sunni mosques attacked in late November in the embattled Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad still bear scars from the attacks and all are now either under Shiite Muslim control or closed.
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In Baquba, local Sunni residents, including a number of former insurgents, have emerged as a linchpin of the American strategy.
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Waving white flags, Iraqis fled the city of Samarra on river boats on Sunday as US forces claimed victory over insurgents in the first step of an offensive aimed at taking control of rebel-held cities and that left 125 people dead.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims fled Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday after a day of fierce gunbattles near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines killed 52 people during an annual religious rite.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops on Tuesday finished two weeks of building-by-building sweeps in a Shiite section of Baghdad that had been wracked with sectarian violence, part of a campaign launched this summer to try and pacify the capital.
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Tens of thousands of Baghdad residents were ordered to leave homes they are occupying illegally in an effort to reverse the tide of sectarian cleansing.
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Iraqi troops backed by U.S. helicopters battled Sunni Muslim insurgents in central Baghdad today, going house to house in one of the oldest parts of the city in search of insurgent cells and hideouts, authorities said.
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In their latest attempt to bring sectarian violence under control, American commanders are shifting thousands of combat troops into advisory positions with Iraqi Army and police units.
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Sadr City, once a symbol of Shiite subjugation, is recovering. Many residents credit the Mahdi Army.
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American and Iraqi forces battled their way into the center of this insurgent-ridden city on Friday, claiming that they had taken control of more than
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Along with a brewing Shi'a civil war,  officials in Diwaniyah are seeing an influx of al-Qaeda and Sunni insurgent elements
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Gunmen in Baghdad have killed a senior Sunni cleric, reawakening fears of sectarian violence in strife-torn Iraq. Sheikh Hazem Zeidi of the Muslim Scholars&#39; Association worked at an isolated Sunni mosque in Baghdad&#39;s impoverished Shia suburb Sadr City.
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BAGHDAD, June 16 -- Another Sunni mosque in the Basra area of southern Iraq was destroyed Saturday, as a leading Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, called on his followers to march to the Sunni town of Samarra next month to a revered Shiite shrine that was attacked Wednesday.
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U.S. forces backed by dozens of tanks  and Bradley fighting vehicles on Thursday overran Baghdad's  mainly Shi'ite suburb of Sadr City, a powerbase for radical  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, witnesses said.
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DASHT TAKH, Iraq  - Farouq Youhana fled car bombs and snipers in Baghdad to start a new life in a village in northern Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan.