Iraq on alert for Shia festival
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Security is high in Iraq for the Shia Muslim festival Ashura, after dozens die as a Shia cult clashes with police.
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Iraqi police order hundreds of thousands of Shia pilgrims to leave Karbala after fighting breaks out.
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Senior aides to the powerful Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr warn US of end to freeze if attacks do not stop
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Political and religious leaders in Iraq call for calm after bombers strike one of Shia Islam's holiest sites.
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Iraqi police fired warning shots and barred vehicle traffic leading to Kufa on Friday, fearing an outbreak of violence as hundreds of worshippers descended on the holy city for the first weekly prayers since radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr relinquished control of its revered shrine under a peace deal.
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The leaders of Iraq and Jordan warned yesterday that Iran is trying to influence the Iraqi elections scheduled for Jan. 30 to create an Islamic
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala on Saturday for the climax of a major Shi'ite ceremony after gunmen from a Shi'ite cult attacked pilgrims and police in two other southern cities.
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A prominent Sunni religious leader accused in Baghdad of inciting terrorism warned Saturday that Iraq's escalating sectarian violence will spread throughout the Middle East unless the international community ends support for the Shiite-led Iraqi government.
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Security forces across Pakistan are on  alert following the death of a prominent Shia leader from gunshot wounds.
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Pakistan tightens security as minority Shias prepare to bury a top cleric killed in a suspected sectarian attack.
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Iraq&#39;s leading Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, is reported to have prepared a peace plan to try to end the violence in the city of Najaf.
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Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani urged his supporters converging on Najaf on Thursday not to enter the battered holy city until he arrived, a senior aide said.
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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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At least 75 people have been killed in a truck bomb attack near a Shia mosque in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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Iraqi security forces tightened their grip around a key shrine in Najaf yesterday after the interim government warned Shia rebels inside they must surrender or die.
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Two bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leave at least 29 people dead, among them a group of Shia pilgrims.
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Iraq's main Shia Muslim coalition is ahead as counting continues in the landmark elections, officials say.