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SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Several thousand Iraqis protested on Friday against Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Samarra and other Sunni Muslim strongholds after he moved to sideline two Sunni leaders from his power-sharing government.Iraq faces its worst crisis in a year ...

Concrete walls put up to protect Samarra's famed golden dome shrine now creates divideThe U.S. military on Tuesday handed over the last of its bases outside Samarra, a city billed as a reconciliation success story. Both U.S. and Iraqi officials say that ...

Iraq has rebuilt the dome and minarets of a Shiite shrine that was bombed in 2006 in an attack which unleashed a wave of sectarian bloodletting that claimed tens of thousands of lives. "The technical teams were able to complete the rebuilding ...

Radical Shiite Cleric Vows to Go Ahead With March to Damaged Shrine, Says Goal Is Iraqi UnityRadical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr vowed Thursday to go ahead with a planned march to a devastated shrine in central Iraq but insisted the goal was ...

Sunni Clerics Call on Shiites to Cancel March Toward a Damaged Holy Shrine in SamarraAn influential Sunni clerical organization urged Shiite Muslims on Monday to cancel a march toward a destroyed shrine in an Iraqi central city, warning that such a move ...

Mosque in Samarra One of the Most Sacred for ShiitesThe Askariya Shrine in Samarra is among Iraq's most sacred sites for Shiite Muslims and was famous for its towering golden dome, which was destroyed in a bombing last year blamed on Sunni ...

Topic: Samarra

Iraq crisis simmers as Sunni strongholds protest Maliki

Security walls at Samarra shrine now create divide

Bombed Iraqi Shiite shrine reopens

Iraq's Al-Sadr vows march will proceed

Sunni clerics ask Shiites to halt march

A look at Shiite shrine in Samarra

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