Iraqi killed on 'march to Najaf'
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At least one person is killed apparently heeding a top Iraqi cleric's call to march on Najaf, where a stand-off continues.
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Iraq&#39;s Shiite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, left the southern Iraqi city of Basra early on Thursday on his way to the troubled central city of Najaf, where he hopes to bring an end to fighting between US forces and supporters of rebel
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani plans to lead a march to the shrine in Najaf that has been commandeered by rebel Mahdi fighters.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Supporters of rebel Iraqi cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr were fired on as they marched from the town of  Kufa to the city of Najaf on Thursday and several were wounded,  witnesses at the scene said.
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At least 10 supporters of Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric were shot dead in Najaf Thursday when gunmen opened fire at police who were trying to control the crowd, prompting the police to return fire, witnesses said.
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KUFA, Iraq - A mortar barrage hit the main mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufa on Thursday, killing 27 people and wounding 63 others as they prepared to march on the violence-wracked city of Najaf, hospital officials and witnesses said.    Thousands of people were crowded around the mosque at the time and dead bodies lay around the mosque compound, which is a stronghold of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, witnesses said...
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US tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf today as fierce clashes with Shiite rebels in a nearby town killed at least 40 Iraqis, officials said.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric returned to the country from Britain on Wednesday and his aides called for a nationwide march to Najaf to end nearly three weeks of fierce fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite militants in this holy city...
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A mortar shell hit the main mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufa, just northeast of Najaf, causing dozens of casualties, witnesses said.
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Insurgents attacked a truck and an  ambulance taking aid to the besieged Iraqi city of Najaf on  Tuesday, killing two people and setting the vehicles on fire, a  Reuters witness said.
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Three soldiers from Fort Hood&#39;s 1st Cavalry Division have died in the fighting in Najaf, Iraq where US troops and supporters of a radical Shiite cleric have clashed for more than a week.
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Three American soldiers were killed on  Sunday in Najaf province, scene of fighting between U.S. forces  and Shi'ite militiamen holed up in the holy city of Najaf, the  military said.
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A freelance Italian journalist who had been working in the troubled Iraqi city of Najaf is missing and his driver has reportedly been killed, government and aid officials said on Saturday.
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NAJAF, Iraq : Rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr bowed Thursday to demands laid down by Iraq&#39;s Shiite spiritual leader to end the conflict in Najaf, as 74 people were killed in a mortar attack and shooting in nearby Kufa.
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They had marched to Najaf to support a mission by Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;a cleric to end the fighting consuming the holy city. But at least 15 of Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani&#39;s supporters
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NAJAF, Iraq - War-weary Iraqis returned to devastated offices and shops in the holy city of Najaf on Saturday after three weeks of clashes as U.S. forces monitored a fragile cease-fire, but violence persisted in Baghdad, killing at least five people...
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As US AC-130s continued their sixth day of bombing runs on al-Mahdi Army positions in Najaf, Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani has issued a call for Iraqis to march to the city to &quot;save it from destruction&quot;.