The Golden Dome of the al-Askaria Mosque and its two minarets prior to the bombings in 2006 and 2007. Just as U.S. and Iraqi security forces have begun to get the sectarian violence back to pre ...

BAGHDAD — The twin explosions Wednesday at one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite Muslim shrines, heavily damaged in an attack last year, dealt a powerful blow to the U.S.-led security plan, seen as a last ...

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 ...

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June 13 (Reuters) - A blast at the site of the Golden Mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday damaged the two minarets that were left standing after the revered Shi'ite shrine was partly ...

Several Sunni mosques have been attacked in apparent retaliation for the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra. At least four people were killed in the most recent violence, but increased security and ...

"Rebuilding a Shia mosque in the heartland of the Sunni insurgency would have been unthinkable" less than a year ago, says Lt. Col. J. P. McGee, commander of the Second Battalion, 327th Infantry, ...

SAMARRA, IRAQ — Sunni Arab residents welcomed more than 1 million Shiite pilgrims to the city of Samarra on Friday to mark the anniversary of a Shiite saint’s death, local officials said, the latest ...

Three Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and burned south of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi police said, in apparent reprisal attacks after suspected al-Qaida militants blew up the minarets of a revered ...

Feb 22 (Reuters) - Militants entered the Golden Mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra at dawn exactly one year ago, setting off charges that destroyed the dome of the revered Shi'ite shrine. The act ...