Iraq's Shiite Muslims are outraged by the attack on one of their holiest shrines, north of Baghdad. The destruction of the golden dome in Samarra set off protests and sectarian violence across the ...

SAMARRA, Iraq -- The U.S. military on Tuesday handed over the last of its bases outside Samarra, a city billed as a reconciliation success story. Worries linger though that wartime remedies like ...

Three suicide bombers disguised in military uniforms infiltrated a mausoleum, the Iraqi authorities said, killing at least 36 people and wounding 40. By Omar Al-Jawoshy The detention of a woman said ...

Should that happen, the tenuous security in Samarra that has made the shrine project possible could collapse overnight. Moreover, the effort itself, although showcased by the government as a powerful ...

BAGHDAD, June 13 -- The Iraqi government imposed a curfew across Baghdad on Wednesday after insurgents used explosives to demolish two minarets at a revered Shiite shrine whose partial destruction ...

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SAMARRA, Iraq — It was the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine here that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war, bloodshed that has left tens of thousands dead and this ancient city in ruins. But ...

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