War-weary Iraqis inspect damage after Najaf; five killed in fresh ...
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War-weary Iraqis returned to devastated offices and shops in the holy city of Najaf on Saturday after three weeks of clashes as US forces monitored a fragile ceasefire, but violence persisted in Baghdad, killing at least five people.
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[World News] Najaf, Aug 26 : At least 25 people were killed and over 60 wounded when mortars slammed into a mosque where thousands of supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr had gathered in the southern Iraqi town of Kufa Thursday, Xinhua reports
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A mortar attack on a police station  in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf on Thursday killed five people  and wounded 21 others, police said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fierce fighting broke out around a  shrine in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf Monday, and pieces of  shrapnel landed in the courtyard of the mosque held by  followers of a radical Shi'ite cleric, Reuters witnesses said.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - At least five loud explosions on  Thursday echoed from near holy sites in the Iraqi city of Najaf  where a radical Shi'ite cleric has remained holed up despite  earlier agreeing to leave a sacred shrine.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fears of heavier fighting in Najaf grew on Wednesday after an Iraqi peace delegation failed to defuse a confrontation between US troops and militiamen holed up in a revered shrine in the city.
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After three weeks of bloody conflict in Najaf, fresh fighting in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City suburb and a death toll creeping into the high hundreds have tarnished the reputation of radical
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NAJAF, Iraq -- The scars of war line every vista leading to the gold dome of the Shrine of Ali. Fire has blackened hotel facades, shells have punched through apartment buildings, and bombs have leveled rows of shops in the normally bustling warren of streets around Iraq's most revered Shi'ite mosque.
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NAJAF, Iraq - U.S. armored vehicles and tanks rolled back into the streets of Najaf and troops battled Shiite militants in a vast cemetery Sunday in a resumption of fighting after the collapse of negotiations aimed at ending the standoff in this holy city...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A U.S. military aircraft launched  several strikes on suspected Shi'ite militant positions in the  besieged southern city of Najaf late on Monday, a Reuters  witness said.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Guns were largely silent in Najaf for the first time in weeks and thousands of Iraqis thronged the revered Imam Ali shrine Friday after Iraq's top Shiite cleric made a dramatic return to this holy city and won agreement from a rebel cleric and the government to end the fighting between his militia and U.S.-Iraqi forces.    The renegade Muqtada al-Sadr accepted the proposal in a face-to-face meeting Thursday night with the 75-year-old Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani...
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When shrapnel lands in Najaf&#39;s Imam Ali shrine, Shi&#39;ite militants holed up inside the sacred complex casually inspect the hot metal and then return to prayers or chanting defiant slogans.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A car bomb killed five people on  Saturday between the Iraqi Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and  Kerbala, sites of twin suicide car bombings a week ago, the  chief of police in Najaf said.
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Two people have reportedly been killed and another two injured after a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Meanwhile, fierce fighting has continued overnight in Najaf around the shrine used by rebels loyal to Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr.
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At least five loud explosions have been heard near holy sites in the Iraqi city of Najaf. Sniper fire could also he heard coming from the area.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Loud blasts were heard in the  southern Iraqi besieged city of Najaf late on Sunday as an  AC-130 U.S. warplane circled overhead, a Reuters witness said.
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The noise of the two Black Hawk helicopters shattered the eerie silence that yesterday had enveloped the city of Najaf. On board were a team of five Iraqi ministers led by Minister of State Kasim Daoud.