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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

In the year since insurgents ripped a hole in one of Iraq s most sacred Shiite shrines, there has been no rebuilding and no healing. Zum Inhalt springen DER SPIEGEL International ...

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 ...

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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.