Letter from Samarra: At Iraq's Ground Zero, too, ... Restoring Iraq's Golden Mosque in Samarra. Published Aug 24, 2008 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Jul 01, 2010 at 1:41 PM EDT. By Newsweek Staff .

SAMARA, Iraq, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Iraqi engineers say crews will be working around the clock to rebuild the landmark Golden Mosque, which was destroyed by a bomb in 2006. Iraq is spending about $60 ...

Saboteur bombers destroyed the two minarets of Samarra’s Askariya Shiite shrine early Wednesday, site of a 2006 bombing that shattered its famous Golden Dome and unleashed a wave of retaliatory ...

Iraqis walk past the damaged al-Askari mosque following an explosion in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq on Feb. 22, 2006.

The 22 February bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, one of Shi'ite Islam's most holy sites, has profoudly shaken Iraq's sensitive Shi'ite-Sunni fault line. Political leaders from across the ...

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 ...

U.S. forces in the central city of Najaf have reportedly come under Iraqi fire from the Ali Mosque, one of the most sacred Shiite Muslim sites in the world.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Five explosions ... also known as the Golden Mosque. The February 2006 bombing is blamed for sparking an eruption of sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

June 13, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Sunni insurgents have once again attacked the Al-Askari (Golden) Mosque in an apparent attempt to goad Shi'a into launching retalitory actions.

Iraq's national security adviser, Moaffak al-Rubaie, talks to Melissa Block about the violence that has engulfed Iraq after yesterday's bombing of the Shiite Golden Mosque in Samarra.