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Radical Moqtada al-Sadr appears at prayers in Iraq
Radical Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr appeared for Friday prayers at his local mosque in Kufa, central Iraq, five months after United States commanders claimed he had fled to…
Car bomb hits Iraqi Shi’ite city
A suicide bomber drove a minibus into a crowded market in Iraq’s Shi’ite city of Kufa on Tuesday, killing 16 people, officials said, in the latest in a spate of sectarian attacks…
Suicide bomber in Iraq’s Shi’ite Kufa kills 59
A suicide bomber pulled his minivan into a busy market on Tuesday, lured labourers onboard with the promise of jobs and then blew himself up, killing at least 59 people in one…
Al-Sadr: Coalition compromise ‘will not work’
Wanted Shiite Muslim radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr said on Friday a compromise with the United States-led coalition ”will not work” and he was prepared to die as a ”martyr”…
Son of Hidden Imam rises
Under the lazy afternoon sun, a dozen men stood guard this week inside the coiled barbed-wire fence that surrounds the police station in Kufa, near the holy city of Najaf. They…