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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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, ...
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And I'm Robert Siegel. And we're continuing with our coverage of the violence that has engulfed Iraq after yesterday's bombing of the Shiite Golden Mosque in Samarra. Late today Iraq's government ...
SAMARRA, Iraq (AP) – Insurgents posing as police destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrines Wednesday, setting off an unprecendented spasm of sectarian violence. Angry crowds ...
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 ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq – One of the most revered shrines in Shiite Islam was bombed early yesterday morning north of Baghdad, causing the collapse of its dome, police and eyewitnesses said. There was no ...
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