Fresh attacks hit Shia pilgrims
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Attacks on Shia pilgrims in Iraq continue with at least nine people killed on their way to the holy city of Karbala.
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A roadside bomb exploded Thursday alongside the convoy of a prominent Shiite cleric whose high-level political ties have made him the target of past assassination attempts. The imam was not injured, but several bodyguards were wounded.
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In a second attack, also shortly after 6 am, a car bomb shattered the wail of dawn prayers at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Azamiyah, a mainly Sunni Muslim neighborhood where sectarian passions already were inflamed.
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At least 13 worshippers die in a car bombing at a Shia mosque in Iraq's capital, after threats of a long war from a militant leader.
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Tens of thousands of Shia pilgrims gather for a religious festival in Iraq's holy city of Karbala amid tight security.
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Intensified insurgent attacks on Shiite holy cities have sparked renewed fears of sectarian strife.
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BAGHDAD, Dec 27: Thirteen people were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber attacked the headquarters of a top Iraqi Shia political leader, while the country&#39;s main Sunni Muslim party announced a boycott of next month&#39;s crucial elections.
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A suicide car bomber turned a venerable book market into a deadly inferno and gunmen targeted Shiite pilgrims Monday as suspected Sunni insurgents brought major bloodshed back into the lap of their main Shiite rivals. At least 38 people died in the blast and seven pilgrims were killed.
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Two bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leave at least 29 people dead, among them a group of Shia pilgrims.
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A bomb exploded on Wednesday at one gate of a holy Shiite shrine in Karbala, south of Baghdad, killing seven people in what seemed to be an attempt to kill an aide to a top Shiite cleric in the country and casting the shadow of violence at the first day
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A deadly blast hits a city near troubled Najaf as the top Shia cleric heads there to try to resolve the crisis.
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A suicide car bomber killed at least 13  Shi'ites northeast of Baghdad and gunmen shot dead nine people  in a Shi'ite bakery in the capital in the latest sectarian  attacks following the Jan. 30 election.
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Political and religious leaders in Iraq call for calm after bombers strike one of Shia Islam's holiest sites.
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The two minarets of one of Iraq's holiest Shia sites are damaged by explosions, officials in Samarra say.
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Two suicide bombers turned a procession of Shiite pilgrims into a blood-drenched stampede Tuesday, killing scores with a first blast and then claiming more lives among fleeing crowds. At least 106 were killed amid a wave of deadly strikes against Shiites heading for a solemn religious ritual.
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AT LEAST 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in a double bomb attack at a religious commemoration in Pakistan yesterday, the nationâs second suspected sectarian attack in less than a week.
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BAGHDAD, June 14 -- At least 13 Sunni mosques came under attack in Iraq the day after bombers struck a revered Shiite shrine for a second time, but the violence did not escalate into the open sectarian warfare that many people in Iraq had feared.