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Letter from Samarra: At Iraq's Ground Zero, too, the rebuilding process is slow and far from finished.
Analysis: Fanning Sectarian Flames Sectarian civil war has been lurking in Iraq's shadows for several months now, and it got a dangerously energetic shove into the open with yesterday's bombing of ...
Associated Press In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, the mostly deserted market is backdropped by the gold-domed mosque in Samarra, Iraq, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad ...
The Golden Mosque following the February 22 bombing (epa) PRAGUE, June 28, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- On February 22, a bomb destroyed a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad, setting off a rash of ...
The bombing of Samarra's al-Askari mosque in 2006 sparked massive violence - and fears are high that a new assault there could reignite the fires.
Updated: 2007-06-14 01:07Saboteurs blew up the two minarets of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra early Wednesday, in a repeat of the 2006 attack that shattered its famous golden dome and ...
BAGHDAD — Another Sunni mosque in the Basra area of southern Iraq was destroyed Saturday, as militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to march to the Sunni town of Samarra ...
A bomb exploded on Tuesday near the entrance of Samarra's Golden Mosque, site of a February bombing that unleashed a wave of sectarian violence in Iraq, causing little damage, the U.S. military said.
The Samarra Brigade -- or the Brigade of the Two Saints, as it has been nicknamed -- was the idea of Shiite lawmakers hoping to hasten the reconstruction of the Golden Mosque, which was blown up ...
Suspected al Qaeda bombers toppled the towering minarets of Samarra's revered Shiite shrine on Wednesday, adding new provocation to old a year after the mosque's Golden Dome was destroyed. The ...