No moment in the aftermath of the U.S-led invasion has led Iraq closer to civil war than Wednesday's attack that shattered the iconic golden dome of one of Shiite Islam's most revered shrines and set ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – More than 100 people died on Thursday in widespread violence across Iraq, including a roadside bombing that killed four U.S. soldiers, as the number of Sunni mosques attacked rose to ...

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 ...

Bombers destroyed the gilded dome of one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines Wednesday in a provocative assault that roused tens of thousands of Iraqi Shiites into angry protests and sometimes deadly ...

Authorities appeal for calm as a bomb in the Iraqi city of Samarra heavily damages the golden dome of the Askiriya Shrine, a holy site for Shiite Muslims. Edward Wong, in Iraq for The New York Times, ...

Three suicide bombers disguised in military uniforms infiltrated a mausoleum, the Iraqi authorities said, killing at least 36 people and wounding 40. By Omar Al-Jawoshy The detention of a woman said ...

2004-06-13 04:00:00 PDT Najaf , Iraq-- At the center of the deadly conflict in southern Iraq between U.S. forces and the anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stand two large mosques. Sunlight ...

Men dressed as Iraqi police commandos slipped into Samarra’s shrine of two revered leaders of Shiite Islam, set up explosives and blew it up this morning, causing the golden dome to collapse and with ...