Millions mark Shi'ite ritual in Iraq after clashes
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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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Shiite fighters left the holiest shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Friday and began turning in their weapons, after tens of thousands of pilgrims celebrated a peace agreement that ended a bloody rebellion.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday in which at least 14 people were killed and scores wounded, officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 -- A series of separate bomb and gun attacks killed dozens of Shiite worshippers in Iraq on Tuesday, a day after Iraqi and U.S. forces disrupted what they said was a major plot to target Shiite pilgrims and leaders as they mark the high point of their religious calendar.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Pilgrims gathered peacefully in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Tuesday to mark one of the holiest days of the Shi'ite calendar after clashes between pilgrims and police overnight killed at least six people.
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At least 40 Iraqis were killed on  Saturday in fierce clashes near the southern city of Najaf,  where Shi'ite militias are involved in a standoff with U.S.-led  forces, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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Shiite Muslims on Tuesday marked Ashoura, commemorating the death in A.
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A suicide car bomber killed 14 Shi'ite  worshippers as they left a Baghdad mosque on Friday, stepping  up a violent campaign to divide Iraq's religious communities  ahead of elections in nine days.
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Iraqis took to the streets of Shi'ite towns and cities on Saturday to protest over the detention by U.S. troops of the eldest son of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala on Saturday where 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi'ite rite, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 19 -- At least nine people were killed in mortar and bomb attacks in northern Iraq on Saturday as millions of pilgrims celebrated the holiest day of the Shiite calendar.
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Thousands of demonstrators supporting and hundreds opposing Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took to the streets in Iraq on Friday as US soldiers fought insurgents in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City and near Falluja.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after fierce clashes between security forces and gunmen killed 52 people during a major Shi'ite religious festival.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shi'ite cult in two southern cities on Friday ahead of the climax of a holy festival for Shi'ite Muslims, security officials said.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - More than a million Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims poured into Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, defying insurgents who killed 155 people in two days in attacks blamed by the government on Sunni militants.
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BAGHDAD - When guards in the holy city of Karbala waved a Shi'ite religious leader's convoy through a security cordon and into the Imam Hussein shrine last week, they incensed a crowd of rival militia men and sparked fighting that claimed the lives of at least 50 and left parts of the city smoldering.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 28 -- Riots broke out during a religious festival in the holy city of Karbala on Tuesday, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims and leaving 28 people dead, police said.