Iraq Shiites

Growing Shiite-Sunni Divide In Post-U.S. Iraq

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 04.03.2012

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BAGHDAD -- Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq's ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate – and unequal. Sunnis ...

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Iraq's Sunni Cabinet Members Suspended

AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 03.18.2012

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-dominated Cabinet suspended boycotting Sunni-backed ministers Tuesday, an official said, deepening a sectarian conflict ...

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String Of Bombings Brings Death Toll In Iraq To 150 In 2012

AP | BUSHRA JUHI | Posted 03.17.2012

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BAGHDAD — Car bombs ripped through two Iraqi cities on Monday, killing at least 11 people, Iraq officials said, in the latest attacks targeting ...

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New Wave Of Bombs Kills At Least 17 In Iraq

AP | ADAM SCHRECK and YAHYA BARZANJI | Posted 03.10.2012

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BAGHDAD — Three car bombs exploded Monday evening in the Iraqi capital and killed at least 17 people, authorities said. At least one appeared to...

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Iraqi Government Demands VP Face Terrorism Charges

AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 03.09.2012

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-led government on Sunday demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunn...

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Third Day Of Attacks Against Shiites In Iraq

AP | By SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 03.08.2012

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BAGHDAD -- A roadside bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed two people and wounded eight others south of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi officials said. T...

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Roadside Bombs Target Shiite Pilgrims In Iraq

AP | Posted 03.07.2012

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BAGHDAD (AP) - Roadside bombs killed two Shiite pilgrims amid a string of explosions in Baghdad on Friday, the day after the country's deadliest secta...

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Iraq War: Not Over and Danger Ahead

James Zogby | Posted 02.23.2012

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James Zogby

America leaves an Iraq that is deeply divided. After decades of ruthless rule, Iraqis endured an invasion and occupation, suffered from terror and ethnic cleansing, and while the trappings of a democracy have been set-up, it remains in a gestational state.

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Iraqi Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr: "Resist The US By All Means Necessary"

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011

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NAJAF, Iraq — Muqtada al-Sadr lambasted the American "enemy" in Iraq during his first speech in the country since returning from exile, fiery rh...

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Iraq Election Results: Nouri Al-Maliki Battling Secular Challenger

AP | BEN HUBBARD AND QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — First results from Iraq's parliamentary election showed the prime minister and his secular rival locked in an extremely tight contest ...

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Iraq Police Say 8 Killed In Wahda, Village South Of Baghdad

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Eight members of one Shiite family were killed south of Baghdad on Monday in the worst incident of a bloody day across Iraq that left ...

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Twin blasts kill 40 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq

AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — A car bomb ripped through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims outside the holy city of Karbala Friday, sending many fleeing into the path of a ...

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The Sunni-Shia Conflict in Iraq

Nathan Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathan Gonzalez

Tuesday's deadly coordinated bomb attacks against soft targets in Iraq bear the mark of a simmering Sunni insurgency. But the Sunni-Shia conflict has very little to do with personal religious grudges.

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Shiite groups form new alliance excluding Iraqi PM

AP | By KIM GAMEL and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — The Iranian-backed Shiite parties that helped propel Iraq's prime minister into power three years ago dumped him Monday as their candi...

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Shiites In Iraq Show Restraint Despite Repeated Sunni Attacks

nytimes.com | ROD NORDLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD Shiite clerics and politicians have been successfully urging their followers not to retaliate against a fierce campaign of sectarian bombings,...

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The Bomb That Changed Iraq Forever

New York Times | Yusra al-Hakeem | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dozens of bombs blew up in Iraq every day, hundreds of sirens went off, tearing through the silence of the nights and the noise of the days, torn body...

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Iranian General Who Brokered Iraq Cease-Fire Named On US Terror Watch List

McClatchy | Warren P. Strobel and Leila Fadel | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Iranian general who helped broker an end to nearly a week of fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite Muslim militiamen in southern Ira...

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AP: Iraqi Prime Minister Left Politically Battered And Humbled

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Rockets fell on the Green Zone and random machine gun fire rang out Monday in the southern city of Basra as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-S...

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Al-Sadr Pulls Fighters Off Streets

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — In a possible turning point in the recent upsurge in violence, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Shiite militiamen off the streets Sunday bu...

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Iraq Fighting Underscores Power Struggle

The Guardian | Sam Kiley | Posted 05.25.2011

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For once, George Bush's open-faced incomprehension - at Nouri al-Maliki's decision to set off a civil war inside Iraq's Shia community - seems entirel...

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George Bush: Spiraling Iraq Violence "A Very Positive Moment"

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

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Violence continues across southern Iraq today, as radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is threatening to end his crucial cease-fire by calling for th...

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Iraq: Shiite Stronghold Is Not Safe

AP | JOHN AFFLECK | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — The death toll rose Friday to 68 from twin bombings whose blow also reverberated beyond the body count: showing that insurgents can st...

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Iraqi PM: al-Qaida Chased From Baghdad

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Friday that U.S. and Iraqi troops have chased al-Qaida in Iraq out of Baghdad in the year since a security ...

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