Shooting Erupts During U.S. Raid on Iraq Mosque
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Shooting broke out at a mosque in  the northern city of Mosul on Friday during a raid by U.S.  troops and Iraqi National Guards, witnesses said.
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Witnesses said at least 11 people were killed in a blast outside a Shiite mosque in restive Diyala Province.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. aircraft launched a fresh  assault on Shi'ite rebels in the Iraqi city of Najaf early on  Sunday after talks on surrendering control of the gold-domed  mosque at the center of an 18-day siege ran into trouble.
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Iraqi forces backed by American soldiers raided one of the country's most important Sunni mosques as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers &#151; part of a crackdown on militant clerics opposed to the U.S.-led attack on Fallujah. Witnesses said at least three people were killed and 40 arrested.
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An injured Iraqi man in a mosque in Fallujah. The US military said on Tuesday that it was investigating a shooting incident in which a marine shot dead an Iraqi prisoner in the battlefield city of Fallujah.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that incited insurgent violence.
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U.S. forces backed by airstrikes raided Sadr City, Baghdad's main Shiite district, killing 49 militants on Sunday as they targeted a militia leader accused in high-profile kidnappings, the military said. Iraqi officials said at least 13 people were killed, including women and children.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. forces launched a fresh  assault on Shi'ite rebels in the embattled Iraqi city of Najaf  on Sunday after talks on transferring control of the mosque at  the center of a two-week siege ran into difficulties.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A mortar attack on the main mosque  in the town of Kufa on Thursday killed at least 25 people as  Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric headed to the nearby  holy city of Najaf to try to end a bloody three-week uprising.
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Explosions hit five churches in Baghdad, and two U.S. Army helicopters crashed elsewhere in the capital, killing two American soldiers and wounding two others, as violence flared while Iraqi Muslims began marking the holy month of Ramadan.
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A gunbattle between U.S. forces and militants erupted today in central Baghdad's Haifa Street on today, according to an Associated Press photographer on the scene.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has ordered an investigation into last week's U.S.-Iraqi raid of a major Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad, his office said Monday.
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A battle erupted near a mosque in  northwest Falluja on Friday just hours after U.S. Marines said  insurgents were now trapped in the south of the city.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces clashed with militants loyal to rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq's capital on Saturday, officials and witnesses said.
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U.S. forces fighting al-Qaida and allied militants intensified operations Wednesday in Baghdad and on all four points of the compass around the capital. To the south, suspected Shiite militiamen bombed three Sunni houses of worship in what may presage a war of the mosques.
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An unknown gunman shot a Sunni  cleric at a mosque in the far northwestern Nigerian city of  Sokoto on Wednesday and a Sunni mob attacked Shi&#39;ite  headquarters in the city in retaliation, witnesses said.
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A bomb struck a Sunni mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, killing seven people and wounding five, while mortars barraged a Shiite mosque north of the capital, leaving five wounded.