US tanks 'encircle Najaf shrine'
444724
US forces reportedly surround Shia fighters in Najaf, after a night of intensive bombardment.
117400
Iraqi forces today joined US troops in the battle with rebel militia in the holy city of Najaf. There was fierce fighting as the joint forces moved to within 200 metres of the Imam Ali shrine, where militiamen
184419
US aircraft have begun a fresh assault on Shi&#39;ite rebels in the embattled Iraqi city of Najaf after talks on transferring control of the mosque at the centre of a two-week siege stalled.
537607
NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. tanks rumbled to within 800  meters (yards) of a holy shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf on  Sunday as fierce clashes with Shi'ite rebels in a nearby town  killed at least 40 Iraqis, officials said.
120457
US forces and Shiite militants fought fierce battles Monday marked by explosions and gunfire near a revered shrine in Najaf, as the US military stepped up pressure on the insurgents to quickly hand over the holy site to Shiite religious authorities.
465092
NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. tanks and snipers took up positions near the revered Imam Ali Shrine and engaged in fierce battles with militants Monday as the U.S...
400420
NAJAF, Iraq  - US warplanes pounded areas near a shrine early Friday where radical Shi&#39;ite militiamen were holed up after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final demand from Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister to disarm.
474618
NAJAF, Iraq  - A U.S. AC-130 gunship attacked  Shi'ite militia positions in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf early  on Monday after tanks reinforced the siege of a shrine at the  center of a nearly three-week insurgency.
64145
NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. tanks on Tuesday reinforced  their positions along the southern flank of Najaf's Imam Ali  shrine, scene of a three-week-old Shi'ite rebellion.
37781
Explosions and gunfire have rocked the Iraqi city of Najaf, with US forces battling militants loyal to a Shiite cleric. Witnesses say the militants attacked US troops with mortar rounds and the troops fired back.
768692
US tanks raided the Baghdad Shi&#39;ite Muslim stronghold of Sadr City in the early hours of Wednesday as aircraft bombed the area and helicopters flew low overhead, witnesses said.
545499
US military tanks advanced to a few hundred meters away from Imam Ali shrine for the first time during Najaf crisis, al-Arabiya TV channel reported on Sunday.
117598
US tanks and Iraqi soldiers are  said to be moving into position closer to the Imam Ali shrine in the  Iraqi city of Najaf.
233392
US troops and warplanes pounded Mehdi Army positions outside the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf early Sunday, US military officials said.
278402
NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. troops and Shi'ite rebels  fought fierce battles in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on  Monday, with multiple explosions and gunfire echoing around a  sacred shrine held by followers of a radical cleric.
289828
NAJAF: Missiles damaged the outer wall of the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf as US planes pounded militia positions in the city on Monday.
21384
NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. tanks rolled into the Old City of Najaf toward a holy Shiite shrine where militants were hiding Monday as participants at a national conference voted to send a delegation here to try to negotiate an end to the fighting...