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NAJAF, Iraq, April 6 (UPI) -- A car bomb near a sacred Shiite Muslim shrine in the Iraq city of Najaf exploded Thursday, killing nine people and wounding about 30 others.
BAGHDAD, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Baghdad and surrounding areas were under a 6 p.m. curfew Thursday in an effort to quell the violence that followed the bombing of a Shiite shrine.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Iraq welcomed plans by Arab League Secretary-General Amr Mousa to make his first visit since the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Leading Iraqi Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has called on the country's majority Shiite community to vote "yes" in Saturday's constitutional referendum.
BAGHDAD, May 20 (UPI) -- Despite local, Arab and foreign efforts to ease sectarian tensions in Iraq, the assassination of Sunni and Shiite clerics has sparked fears of civil strife.
BAGHDAD, May 19 (UPI) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi visited Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's highest Shiite religious authority, Thursday in the holy city of Najaf.
AMMAN, Jordan, March 13 (UPI) -- Jordan has strongly rejected accusations by Iraqi Shiite leaders that it is interfering in Iraq's affairs and trying to ignite sedition among Iraqis.
BAGHDAD, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Results of Iraq's election are expected to bring to power Shiite clerics who make no secret of their desire to turn the nation into an Islamic republic.
BAGHDAD, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission said Saturday the final results of last week's general election will be announced before Thursday.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Election workers laboring under heavy security Saturday readied polling places for Iraq's first nationwide election in nearly half a century.
