Pilgrims flee Iraqi city as clashes kill 52
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after fierce gunbattles erupted between security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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Thousands of Iraqi Christians picked their way through checkpoints and along dusty streets lined with concrete blast walls, packing churches in Baghdad on Tuesday for Christmas Mass.
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Waving white flags, Iraqis fled the city of Samarra on river boats on Sunday as US forces claimed victory over insurgents in the first step of an offensive aimed at taking control of rebel-held cities and that left 125 people dead.
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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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Clashes in Sadr City, where US forces and militiamen loyal to rebel Shi&#39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have been fighting since April, have killed at least 22 Iraqis.
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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 dozens of people were killed and nearly 100 wounded, officials said.
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More than 1,000 Iraqis a day are being displaced by the sectarian violence that began on  Feb. 22 with the bombing of the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra, according to a report released this week by the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration, a U.N.-associated group.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraq's prime minister flew to the holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday and declared order had been restored after gunbattles among Shi'ite factions killed 52 people and forced hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to flee.
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A bomb attack near Muslim Shiites commemorating Ashura, one of the group's holiest events in Iraq kills two people a day after fighting between security forces and members of a violent Shiite messianic cult killed 56 people and raised religious tensions as millions gather to mark the day.
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Explosions and gunfire broke out Monday in Baqouba - the latest in a wave of clashes that has swept Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland even as U.S. and Iraqi forces move against the last remaining pockets of ...
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police killed three people on Monday night in clashes with pilgrims in Iraq's city of Kerbala, where tens of thousands of Shi'ites have gathered for one of the holiest days on the Shi'ite calendar.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police killed three people on Monday night in clashes with pilgrims in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala, where tens of thousands of Shi'ites have gathered for one of the holiest days on the Shi'ite calendar.
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Fourteen Pakistani and Indian Shi'ite   pilgrims were abducted and killed in Iraq's western desert,   police said on Saturday, a day after the Pentagon warned that   sectarian strife there had created the risk of civil war.
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BAGHDAD, 13 September 2004 - Fifty-two people, including three Polish soldiers, were killed and scores wounded in a fresh surge of violence in Iraq yesterday.
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MOSUL, Iraq, Nov 10  - At least 22 people were killed in a wave of violence in northern Iraq Wednesday, prompting the government to slap curfews on the Sunni Muslim cities of Mosul and Baiji.
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Sporadic gunfire echoed through the center of Karbala early Wednesday after daylong clashes between rival Shiite militias claimed up to 51 lives and forced officials to abort a Shiite religious festival that had drawn up to 1 million pilgrims from around the world.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide car bomber slammed into parked police cars sealing off a Baghdad neighborhood Friday as US troops rounded up dozens of suspected militants in nearby raids, capping a day of violence across Iraq that left at least 52 dead.