Quarter million Iraqis flee sectarian violence
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A quarter of a million Iraqis have fled   sectarian violence and registered as refugees in the past seven   months, data released on Thursday showed, amid an upsurge in   attacks that has accompanied the Ramadan holy month.
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Millions of Shiites are making a pilgrimage to Karbala, Iraq, this weekend, despite the threat of snipers and suicide bombers.
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Forced from their Baghdad home by sectarian violence, an Iraqi Christian couple in their 70s have spent the past two years bounced between detention centers in Greece and Belgium, terrified of being forced back to Iraq.
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Nearly two million Iraqis have fled to Jordan and Syria, threatening the social and economic fabric in both countries.
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Â· Military surge in north and south of Iraq  Â· 75 people reported killed in mosque bomb
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Nearly 2 million Iraqis have fled their homeland -- what one U.N. official calls a "simmering crisis." In Jordan, Iraq refugees make up more than one-tenth of the population. In the last year, Dr. Nafie Abtan has gone from prominent doctor to refugee. "I feel disaster," he says.
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The core Iraqi resistance numbers between 8,000 and 12,000 people, with many more sympathizers, according to officials.
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Attacks in Iraq reached a high of approximately 180 a day last month, reflecting an increasingly complicated conflict that includes sectarian clashes of Sunni and Shiite militias on top of continuing strikes by insurgents, criminal gangs and al-Qaeda terrorists, according to the directors of the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency....
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Hundreds of US troops are diverted from Falluja to Mosul, as violence continues to spread to other areas of Iraq.
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The mounting insurgency in Iraq has claimed the lives of more than 30 Iraqi civilians and security forces during the past two days.
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Saddam Hussein uprooted Assyrian  Christians from their ancient homeland in northern Iraq. Now  militants in Baghdad are forcing some to flee again.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday as a battle raged between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 18 -- More than 40 people were killed Friday during clashes between Iraqi security forces and an obscure Shiite sect in southern Iraq, the deadliest violence since the U.S.-led coalition handed over control of the region last month, Iraqi officials said.
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Some 2,000 Iraqis who fled a U.S.-led  offensive on Falluja more than a month ago will return to the  Sunni Muslim city on Thursday although sporadic fighting  persists in some areas, Iraqi ministers said on Wednesday.
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A sectarian split is a risk in Iraq's Jan. 30 election.
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Some 2,000 Iraqis who fled a U.S.-led offensive on Falluja more than a month ago will return to the Sunni Muslim city Thursday although sporadic fighting persists in some areas, Iraqi ministers said Wednesday.
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Fear still pervades life in Iraq despite a recent reduction in violence, the spiritual leader of Iraq's Catholics said Monday, making a Christmas appeal for refugees who have fled the country to return nonetheless.