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 ...
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Two years ago, insurgents blew up a sacred Shiite mosque in Samarra, Iraq. Rather than counter the insurgency, the U.S. military and the Iraqi government shut the city down. Now, the mosque is being ...
Khaled Ibrahim dreams of a home on the outskirts of Samarra, but a concrete wall built to protect the Iraqi city is stopping him and hampering sorely-needed urban expansion. Built more than a decade ...
SAMARRA, Iraq -- On one of his last days in Iraq, Sgt. Dale Evans looked out over the turbulent city from a rooftop tower piled high with sandbags, manning a machine gun. Below him, rows of Bradley ...
Yesterday’s destruction of the twin minarets of the revered Askaria mosque in Samarra threatens to reignite the sectarian war which began in February of 2006 after the dome of the same mosque was ...
Violence in Baghdad and greater Iraq remains low as the Iraqi government is enforcing a curfew in the major population centers where the threat of sectarian backlash from the Samarra mosque bombing ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has put his militia on alert to battle Islamic State militants for the city of Samarra, home to a Shi'ite mosque whose destruction ...
NPR's Noah Adams talks to NPR's Peter Kenyon, reporting from Baghdad, about the latest news in Iraq. U.S. forces report that at least 109 insurgents and one American soldier were killed in the city of ...
SAMARRA, Iraq, June 27 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed seven people including five police commandos in central Samarra on Wednesday, Iraqi police said, and two more civilians were killed in the ...
Samarra, Iraq, Oct. 20, 2006: Specialist Ryan Drewry, 21, from Cincinnati, Ohio, kneels in front of a gate in Samarra, Iraq, on a dismounted patrol through the city while a young Iraqi girl looks out.