Sadr attacks Iraq PM in Shia rift
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Iraqi Shia leaders linked to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr attack their former ally, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
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At least one Iraqi has been killed apparently heeding a top cleric&#39;s call to march to Najaf, where clashes go on between US-led forces and Shia militia.
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Established Shiite parties and powerful upstarts are feuding, causing their leading cleric to try to pull them together to ensure that the Shiites clearly dominate the new government.
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Attacks on Shia pilgrims in Iraq continue with at least nine people killed on their way to the holy city of Karbala.
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NAJAF, Aug 17: An Iraqi peace delegation urged Shia leader Moqtada Sadr on Tuesday to call off his uprising in Najaf, and on the battlefront US troops pounded militia positions near the country&#39;s holiest sites.
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Iraq's prime minister sharply criticized a U.S.-Iraqi attack Monday on a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad, breaking with his American partners on security tactics as the United States launches a major operation to secure the capital.
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Clashes break out in the southern Iraqi city of Basra between police and members of a Shia cult, officials say.
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A deadly blast hits a city near troubled Najaf as the top Shia cleric heads there to try to resolve the crisis.
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr could end a ban on his militia's activities because of rising anger over U.S. and Iraqi raids against his followers, an aide said Friday amid concerns about rising violence and clashes between rival factions in the mainly Shiite south.
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Fears of civil war in ethnically divided Iraq have again been voiced after the twin attacks on Shia cities Karbala and Najaf on Sunday.
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A leading Shiite Muslim cleric Friday criticized the heavy use of force by the US military against insurgents in a northern Iraqi city, saying
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Suspected Shia militants set fire to six Sunni mosques in Iraq in the 24 hours after an attack on a major Shia shrine.
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Clashes erupted between British troops and Shiite Muslim militiamen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr in Iraq's southern city of Basra, wounding one British soldier, sources on both sides said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shia militants and US forces battled in the Sadr City slums yesterday, and a mortar barrage slammed into a busy neighborhood in the capital in new violence that killed at least five Iraqis and wounded dozens of others.
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This week's intense clashes between the Iraqi army and a Shiite militia are part of a strategy to whittle away the power of a radical cleric. But the high-risk gambit could trigger more fighting across the Shiite south &#151; at a time when the cleric's stronghold in the capital is virtually off-limits.
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An adviser to the Iraqi PM says radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr is in Iran, but says he will be back soon.
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The attack, the deadliest in Iraq in months, occurred in a southern city where rival Shiite groups have been battling for power.